A/N: Hey guys, sorry it has been a long time since I last updated. Things have been crazy in my life recently. I recently graduated with my Bachelor's degree in computers and have begun my Master's degree. It has been a long road up to this point and I can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel when it comes to college. Since my last update of last year, I had to move back home to help out my parents as my dad's stroke caused him to lose part of his vision and has memory trouble. Luckily the local commuity college has partnered with the university I attend and I can take my classes here as they have decided to help out low income students from having to move up to the main campus. I had a hard time writing this chapter as I wanted to do something different than the typical Harry and company go down and save the stone and are called heroes. My beta reader who is my best friend recently got married so they haven't edited this as much as they normally do. This whole chapter is basically me going through writing a little each day, walking away and fixing any mistakes or rewriting anything that didn't make sense. I hope you guys like it and if you see anything wrong, please tell me as I am currently trying to catch up with writing and editing my stories.

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Chapter 6: Saving the Stone, Summer Vacation, and Birthday Surprises

A few weeks after his run-in with Voldemort, Harry knew that he would have to face him. He told the girls what happened and the three were glad that he was okay. Angelina was scared that her brother was attacked, but the fact that he had to face Voldemort so soon, scared her that her brother's life. The four of them began to plan on what to do about what might be underneath the trapdoor that Neville and the bicker twins talked about. While dealing with Fluffy, as Hagrid had spilled the beans on the dog to Harry when he asked about it, they knew it would be difficult.

Alicia began to think up a plan as she was the more logical choice out of the four. Her knowledge of the subjects was the reason she was one of the top students of her year, behind Cedric Diggory. Getting past Fluffy would be easy as Hagrid told Harry that music soothes any beast and due to forcing Neville to spill the beans about what he saw or make him test Fred and George's new stink bomb formula.

Angelina and Katie had begun to try and ask the professors what things that they might create to protect an important item, but they were promptly stopped. None of them would answer their questions, but that didn't stop McGonagall from dropping a hint. Katie who had understood it, told the others what it was. All of the teachers had created obstacles to protect the stone, but each were simple to solve if the person who was trying to paid attention. So that meant that there was Fluffy to deal with, then stuff from charms, potions, herbology, defense, and transfiguration.

Alicia groaned as she really hated dealing with crazy things. Katie was already tired from Oliver's crazy training for the match against Hufflepuff, while Angelina was getting stressed from her ancient runes and arithmancy class. Harry was getting annoyed from all of the arguing that Ron and Hermione were doing lately and the fact that they were still at each other's throats was getting worse.

When Harry was heading for lunch, a few days after Alicia had told them what they would face, Harry began to come up with a plan. He knew that Angelina would stick by him as if he got hurt and Angelina wasn't there, their mom would heal him just to beat the crap out of him. Seeing Neville try to make peace with the arguing couple, Harry sat down near them to hear their plan.

"No Ron, we have to go tonight to stop Snape. You heard it yourself, Dumbledore has been called away for the next few days and without him here, Snape will help You-Know-Who." Hermione said in a harsh whisper, that really wasn't a whisper.

"Do you have to be such a know-it-all? Why tonight though, you said it yesterday, we don't know what we will face down there. Besides, what happens if we do manage to save the stone, no one will know we did it." Ron said before stuffing his face with food making Hermione leave in a huff.

Neville tried to make Ron see reason, but the boy was more interested in eating all of the chicken wings. Realizing that the boy was incredibly dense, Neville left to go after Hermione. Harry knew that he would have to stop the three of them, but could he do it was another question. Lost in his thoughts, Harry never saw Alicia and Katie sit next to him and steal his food.

Angelina who had been finishing her Ancient Runes homework saw Katie sliding close to Harry which made her see red. After her crazy dream, Angelina knew that while she didn't have a problem asking Harry out, she didn't want to share Harry right away. She knew that she was going to one day be married to Harry due to Lily's blessing, she was more afraid of who would be the others who Lily likes.

Later that day, Katie who wanted to brush up on her charms work, overheard Neville trying to get Ron and Hermione to shut up and listen to him. The boy who once had a stutter and fumbled over his words was now telling them to stop arguing and put it aside and work together to stop Voldemort. The two agreed, but as Katie listened to their conversation she knew that they were not going to succeed as a group.

Katie left the area before she ran into Alicia who was trying to hide her copy of "Harry Potter and the Troll's Curse". Katie grabbed the blushing girl and ran toward the common room where they would find Angelina reading a book while Fred and George were telling Harry how to create pranks. Katie told the twins to beat it, but the two were not budging until Katie relented and told them what she heard.

"So apparently tonight Neville with Hermione and Ron are going to go and try to stop whoever is help Voldemort. Now while I have no problem with Neville, the other two have already cost us 150 and if they get in trouble again there goes all of our points. I don't know about you guys but we cannot afford that not after we have worked so hard to gain those points back. Now while I hate to say this, but while Neville is a good person, he is not the one who has to save the stone. Harry is the only one who can do that as he has been targeted by the asshole 'cough' Moldyshorts 'cough' who wants the stupid thing and now has to go and face him before he can even have a chance to train some more. We know that there will be multiple traps to protecting the stone. Now let's go and prepare for tonight." Katie said while Fred and George immediately jumped up and prepared to go grab their pranking kit.

Harry got up off the floor and headed to the boys dorms to get some sleep, while Alicia and Angelina began to plan. Grabbing some of their colored pens, the two began drawing out what they would face. The first they knew was Fluffy, so they drew a dog for him. The second the figured would have to be either herbology or charms for the first two traps, following that would be a transfiguration trap, then potions or defense, then the stone. Seeing that it wasn't going to be a cakewalk, the two decided to tell Katie that they're going to grab some sleep before they went about with their plan.

Angelina went up toward the boy's dorms, where she found Harry already asleep. Grabbing the blanket that had fallen on the floor, she placed it over Harry whose reaction was to grab it. As she saw that Harry was sleeping peacefully, Angelina placed a kiss on Harry's cheek before heading toward her own bed where she would grab some much needed rest. Alicia who was the next one to reach the dorm, set an alarm for 9 pm as that's when Neville and company would be getting ready to head toward third floor. Katie who had been the packing a bag to take with to help with whatever they would face, fell asleep on the couch in main part of the common room and made sure to keep an ear out for any word on Neville and the blunder twins.

Harry woke up to the sounds of Ron and Neville fighting about bringing Hermione, which he used to his advantage to throw a pillow at Ron to tell him to shut up. Ron growled at being hit, before he huffed and went down to the fireplace while Neville dealt with Harry. Before Neville, could utter a word Harry stopped him.

"Neville, listen to me I know you want go save the Sorcerer's Stone or whatever the stinking thing is called, you don't have to worry about that. Now while you are so gungho to save it, you need to realize that whoever is after the stone is aligned with Voldemort and and he will you use to get to me, don't forget he killed my parents and his followers hurt yours as well. Now let's go down and stop the tweedledum and tweedledee before Angie and her friends kill them." Harry said while Neville who wanted to tell Harry that he was wrong, sighed in defeat.

Heading down the stairs, Harry and Neville saw Hermione and Ron on the floor frozen. Sitting on the couch was a grinning Katie with her wand out. Before Neville could asked what was going on, Katie froze him and he hit the floor.

"Sorry Neville, but it was the only way to make sure that you didn't follow us. Don't worry though, the spell will wear off in a few hours and you can go tell McGonagall what happened here. Besides it's nothing personal, it's just well do you really see Hermione and Ron realling helping you down there without being total glory hogs for something that you could solve together?" Harry said while Neville who began to see what Harry said formulate in his mind.

As the quartet headed to stop Voldemort and whoever he was using to get the stone, they managed to dodge all of the prefects guarding the seventh floor and used one of the portraits to use a shortcut to the third floor. Looking around as they exited the portrait, Katie looked around and told the rest the coast was clear and they headed toward the door where Fluffy was waiting for them.

Stepping into the room, the harp in the corner of the room was playing. Fluffy was snoring, as the quartet looked around the room and dropped their heads when they saw the dog's paw on the trap door. Working together they lifted the paw off of it, but struggled to open the door. Right as Alicia was about to blow the door off, Katie and Angelina pulled the door from the opposite way and it opened up.

Before they could cheer though, everyone's blood ran cold. The harp stopped and Fluffy started to wake up. As they started to back up from the beast, it began to growl and tired to corner them. Thinking fast on her feet, Alicia threw Harry's invisibility cloak over them and all of them jumped down the trap door. Fluffy went to eat them, but the group was too far down to reach them.

Hitting something soft, the group grunted as they hit whatever they landed on. Each of them were separated from each other, but could be seen by one another. Trying to move was impossible as they were stuck in what looked like vines. Katie tried to stand up, but before she could she was grabbed by one of the vines and was pinned. The others tried to get to her, but they too were caught by the vines.

"Everyone stop struggling. This is Devil's Snare, a very dangerous plant. It will kill you, the more you struggle the faster it will kill you." Angelina said while making everyone else panic.

"Kill us faster?! Oh thank you Angie. Now when we get free or die I can tell you how relaxed I am!" Alicia yelled at her friend while the vines were starting to wrap around her neck.

Angelina who had begun to relax was soon free from plant as it had given up on killing her. Seeing this the others yelled for her, but were relieved when she said she was fine. Harry deciding to follow Angelina's idea was soon released from the plant as was Katie. Alicia on the other hand was starting to panic from her claustrophobia.

"Alicia stay calm. We're right here still, don't worry. We will get you out of there." Katie said hoping to calm her friend down, but Alicia began to scream in terror from the vines surrounding her.

Angelina started pacing trying to think of an idea to save Alicia. Harry and Katie were trying to figure out a way to burn the plants off. Upon hearing burn, Angelina remembered what Neville told Hermione about Devil's Snare. The plant hated sunlight, she just had to make the 'sun' appear in the area. Racking her brain for the spell, Angelina hoped that there was one. Then it hit her, she remembered the spell that her mom liked to use on her and Harry when they wouldn't wake up.

"Lumos Solemn!" Angelina shouted as her wand was pointed straight at the plant when a bright light began shining out of her wand.

The vines surrounding Alicia were gone and she fell straight toward the ground while still panicking. Katie tapped Alicia's shoulder who opened her eyes and breathed a sigh of relief as she hugged Katie tight. Dusting themselves off, they all headed down the path when they began hearing a fluttering sound. Looking around them, they couldn't see anything above them until Harry walked right into a door.

Getting off the ground and rubbing his nose, Harry opened the door and felt his heart sink. The fluttering sound was a bunch of flying keys around the room, each different from the last. Hoping that they could open the door or that whoever was there before them left it unlocked. Sadly though the door was locked and they key was now flying around. All four of them spread out to look for the key in the area, but with so many in the air it was hard to figure out which one.

Looking around and closely at each key, there were over a few dozen keys in the room. Alicia found a broom that was floating in the room and before saying anything knew that it was charmed. Not wanting to trigger a trap, she promptly left it and told everyone about it. Katie groaned in frustration as all of the keys were making her upset. Harry who had been looking for the keys, began noticing how his seeker practice was paying off when searching for the right key as he began noticing all of the little details of each key.

"There it is! The one with the broken wing." Harry said making the others focus on said key.

"Okay. Now that we know what key we are looking for, who has to grab it?" Katie said while hoping she wasn't picked to get the key.

All three of the girls were about to play rock-paper-scissors for it, when they see the keys start flying toward Harry. Harry dodged the keys which began to toward him and sliced his sweater. As he flew toward the right key, he was soon surrounded by the other keys and they began to attack him. Harry managed to grab the key, but as he did a few of the keys sliced his hand and face. Some of them began to attack the broom, trying to break it.

Flying as fast as he could, Harry headed toward the door. When he was close to the girls, he shouted at them.

"Catch the key!" He shouted as he threw the key as it was caught by Katie.

Katie unlocked the door and waved toward Harry letting him know it was opened. Harry flew straight up, before turning around and heading towards the door. As he did, the keys flew at his face, some slicing his skin and sweater. When he got near the door, Harry jumped off the broom and the trio of girls immediately closed it. Before the door was closed, keys began to hit the door crashing, clanging, and smashing into the door.

Dusting himself off, Harry limped toward the next area while Angelina helped him walk as he twisted his ankle from him jumping off the broom. Angelina got Katie's bag and grabbed some bandages to wrap around Harry's ankle and arm as it had been sliced by multiple keys. While the bandaging wasn't the prettiest, it would keep Harry safe from opening the wounds up further and getting them infected. Alicia and Katie were in the front and opened the next door. Katie walked into the room first and screamed in horror.

"Why does it have to be chess?! Seriously, why couldn't it have been checkers? I rock at checkers, but no they choose chess. I hate chess!" She screamed as Alicia patted her shoulder.

Katie hated chess with a passion, ever since she was always lost at chess and what was worse it was always by her cousins who beat her and mocked her for not knowing how to play the game. Wishing she had laser beam eyes to melt every single one of those pieces, but sadly though she didn't have that. Alicia though was one of the top chess players at school, even beating Ron three times in a row because he couldn't stand losing to a girl.

Alicia told the three to take their places as the only way through was beating the game. Harry took a place of a knight, Angelina was the queen, and Katie was a bishop. When the first pawn moved, Alicia began to plan her strategy. Cracking her neck and fingers, Alicia began to form a small evil grin as she knew that she was going to show whoever created this game why she was the best chess player at Hogwarts, even if no one gave her the respect she deserved for being the current Gryffindor champion and managed to beat everyone who challenged her from Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw. Slytherins though avoided her like the plague as they didn't want to sully themselves by playing against her as she was seen as an unworthy challenge.

After thirty-five minutes of playing against the charmed chess pieces, Alicia was close to winning. She had five pieces left while all that was left was the queen and king. The queen piece turned toward the last pawn and destroyed it, making Alicia start sweating as all that was left were the pieces the others were. Looking at her available options, she had limited moves to do and began to doubt herself. Taking a calm breath, Alicia looked at her possible options.

She either had to have the knight Harry was on go forward, which gave Angelina the option to get the king in checkmate, but she could have Katie go and place the king in check and force the queen to go toward Katie, but that was dangerous. She knew that she had limited option, but went with the one that was the easiest and safest way.

"Harry! Climb down off the knight, I'm making a sacrifice play with it. Knight to H3." Alicia said while Harry hobbled off the board and watched as the knight went toward it's new spot.

The queen piece then moved over toward the knight and destroyed it. After it had finished its attack, it reset itself back to a normal piece. Angelina then heard Alicia to go and finish the game. Angelina walked diagonally and stood in front of the king before saying.

"Checkmate" Angelina said as the king piece dropped its sword after being checkmated.

The quartet walked across the board to the next room where they were expecting another challenge, but saw something they were not expecting. The next challenge was a troll, but it was dead. Whoever came down before them destroyed the head of the troll as it was completely destroyed and a bloody mess all over the floor.

"Holy crap! What the hell happened here? I mean the four of us took out a troll, minus you know destroying a bathroom in the process. There is no way this is Snape doing this, I mean I can't see Snape being powerful enough to take out a troll, plus completely skipping over the chess game, making it out of the keys and Devil's Snare. No this is the work of someone stronger than him, somebody like Dumbledore." Katie said as she poked the piece of brain she found by the door.

Approaching the door cautiously, Katie and Alicia were in the front while Angelina was helping Harry walk. Pushing the door open slowly, Katie peeked her head in first before telling everyone it was clear. Walking through the door, the quartet saw that there was no one there but a table with a bunch of potions and a wall of fire. Sighing as he saw saw, Harry couldn't believe at what Snape had created.

"Of course he would do something like this. Only Snape could create an obstacle where we have to walk through fire by drinking the right potion. What's next a giant mirror that shows what our greatest desire is?" Harry said sarcastically before Angelina smacked him.

"Quiet Harry. You know that we're after a mirror that shows your inner desire. I mean knowing some of the people here it could probably show things like them being head boy and quidditch captain because of their greed and want to be recognized. Hell I bet when I look in it, I'll probably see myself older with you and little kids in our arms." Angelina said while dreaming of that moment.

Alicia and Katie snickered at her comment, before sorting the potions. After looking through all of the potions, they duo managed to figure out that there was two possibilities. One was a great blue bottle that was shiny and was full of whatever potion was in it. The other was a red bottle that was older looking and had hardly any potion but a few uses left.

"All right, so who's going to drink the thing? Pick wisely as well because knowing Snape the potion will knock you unconscious." Katie said while eyeing the bottles carefully.

Harry grabbed the red bottle instantly and drank some of it. Shivering in disgust as he did, he felt a warm glow from the potion. Loosening Angelina's grip on him, Harry limped forward toward the flames and closed his eyes as he prepared to walkthrough. As he did, Harry expected to be burned, but to his amazement he was unharmed. Turning around he waved toward the girls to show he was okay.

All three of them let out a sigh of relief as they saw Harry was okay, but wondered who was going to drink the last of the potion. Trying to decide who would drink it, Angelina immediately grabbed it and drank the rest before Alicia or Katie could say a word. As she started walking toward the flames, Angelina turned toward her friends.

"Listen you two, head back up to the third floor. Find McGonagall or whoever and get them down here fast. I'll help Harry as much as I can, but we'll need all the help we can get. See you on the flip side." Angelina said before giving her friends a thumbs up sign.

Taking a deep breath, Angelina closed her eyes and went straight into the wall of fire. Opening one eye as she walked through, she saw that she was on the other side of the flames. Sighing as she did so, she was glad that the last trial was done. Seeing that Harry was already heading out the door, Angelina walked after him to try and catch him.

Opening the last door, they saw Quirrell standing in front of the mirror looking smug as he saw Harry and Angelina as they entered the room. Turning around, the smirk never left his face as he turned around to look at the children who were going to defeat him.

"So you managed to make it through the trials. Funny thing is, I half expected Longbottom and the bumbling duo to help him out. It doesn't matter really, I only needed one of you to get me the stone." Quirrell said while using a spell to force both Angelina and Harry to their knees.

"Now Potter, you will go to the mirror and figure out how to get my stone. If you don't then…" Quirrell began before using his wand to slice into Angelina's cheek.

Not wanting to see him torture her, Harry walked in front of the mirror. Standing in front of it Harry though it was just a simple mirror as he only saw his reflection. As he stared into it, he didn't seem to think that the mirror actually had any magic. Until he saw his reflection smirk at him and put his hand in his pocket and pull out the stone. Showing the stone in all its glory, the reflection Harry placed the stone back in his pocket where Harry put his hand and felt that the stone was there in his pocket.

"What do you see Potter?! Tell me the truth! If not, well then..." Quirrell said while placing his wand closer to Angelina's throat to put an emphasis on his threat.

"I see the stone in the mirror and how to get it. Though I don't see how you will walk out of here with it." Harry said while Quirrell pressed his the tip of his wand on Angelina's throat and began to slowly make an incision on it.

"Do not tempt me Potter! Give me the stone or watch your pretty little girlfriend die right here. Did you…" Quirrell began as another voice spoke.

"Let me speak to the boy." The voice said in a small hiss.

"Master you are not strong enough though." Quirrell stated before he gripped his head in pain.

"I have strength for this you fool!" The voice shouted while making Quirrell whimper in pain.

Grabbing his turban, Quirrell began to unwrap it. As he did so, Harry fell to his knees in pain as his scar began to hurt. Upon unwrapping his turban, Quirrell removed it and on the back of his head was a moving face.

"Voldemort." Harry said softly as he was still in pain.

"Yes, Harry Potter. See what happened to me. Nothing more than a leech living between life and death. Always moving from host to host, trying to survive. Unicorn blood can sustain me, but with the power of that stone I can live again." Voldemort said while Harry began to growl at the man.

"You're crazy. Living forever is just a fool's dream. One day even the creator of this stone would hate seeing people he knew die and before he finally decided it was time to die. You are not like that, you are a coward who wants to live forever to make up for the fact that his mommy and daddy didn't love him." Harry said making fun of Voldemort, who hated when someone brought up his parents.

"Make your choice Potter. Either give me the stone or watch your pretty little girlfriend die." Voldemort said in a cold tone of voice.

Quirrell began moving his wand to continue slicing when a spell took his wand away from him. In front of Quirrell was Professors McGonagall, Flitwick, and Dumbledore. Realizing that Harry was playing a game to distract him, Voldemort snarled at them.

"So that's what your plan was huh Potter? You think that they can defeat me? Lord Voldemort, the greatest wizard to ever live!" Voldemort said shouting the last part with his name to make all those in the room fear him.

"Be silent Tom! You are nothing but a shell of your former self. Give up now and we will mercy to you and Quirrell. You cannot escape from here." Dumbledore said in a voice that was laced with power, but a hidden tone was behind it.

"You really think that I will surrender to you? Ha! Don't make me laugh you old fool. Kill the boy and get the stone from his corpse you fool." Voldemort hissed to Quirrell who moved toward Harry to kill him, while creating a flame wall to block the professors

Harry moved back from the mirror, but tripped on the stairs. Quirrell moved his wand in a slashing motion and slashed Harry's shoulder forcing him to grab it in pain, but as he did the stone fell out of his hand. Quirrell tried to grab the stone, but Harry grabbed it first and held it tight. Deciding that he had to kill him fast, Quirrell began to choke Harry hoping to break his neck.

Dumbledore took the flame wall down with ease and sent three spells in succession toward Quirrell. The first stunned him, the second wrapped him in chains, and the third knocked him out cold. McGonagall went toward Harry to check on him, while Flitwick was already checking on Angelina. Dumbledore walked over to where Quirrell was and as he was about to check on him, Quirrell's body exploded into smoke.

Soon a ghostly apparition that resembled the face of Voldemort went toward Dumbledore who managed to stop him. Realizing that Dumbledore was too powerful at the moment, Voldemort went toward Harry hoping to at least kill him. As the mist of Voldemort went toward Harry, went straight through Harry's chest and he screamed in pain as Voldemort went through him. Soon in a bright light, Voldemort was ejected out of Harry's body and the spirit of Voldemort was sent out of Hogwarts screaming in anger.

Dumbledore sighed in anger that while he managed to find out that Voldemort was alive, he didn't manage to catch him like he hoped. Realizing that he was going to come back stronger and soon war would be back in England. Albus Dumbledore looked at the currently unconscious savior of the wizarding world and knew that one day the fate of the world would rest on his shoulders.

(Three Days later)

Waking up with a head splitting headache, Harry groaned as the sunlight shined through and began to bother him. Groaning as he sat up, Harry found his glasses next to him on the end table. Putting them on, Harry blinked as his eyes adjusted and was amazed at what was on the table in front of him.

A pile of candy, cards, and other items were littered throughout the table all with the same thing of 'Get well Harry' on the cards or box. As he reached out to grab one of the chocolate frogs, Harry saw Dumbledore walk toward him.

"Ah good morning Harry. I trust you are feeling better my boy." Dumbledore said in a kind voice.

Harry just nodded his head and grabbed the chocolate frog box only to find it empty. Reaching for another, it was empty as well. Wrinkling his nose at the fact that someone ate all of them, Harry stopped reaching for the candy and sat back against his pillow.

"I see you have discovered that young mister Weasley ate all of the chocolate frogs. He, Neville, and Hermione were here to check on you and Miss Johnson. You gave us quite a scare you know. Between the violent outbursts of convulsions as Madame Pomfrey put it, along with severe dehydration we were worried about what happened to you." Dumbledore said while staring at Harry who looked confused.

Harry opened his mouth to speak, but had trouble getting any noise out. His throat hurt to the point that it felt like it was scratchy, on fire, and he could tasted a copper in his mouth. Making a gesture of writing to Dumbledore, he summoned a quill and parchment for Harry.

"What happened after Quirrell exploded? Did Voldemort get away?" Harry wrote down while Dumbledore looked sad, it was hard to tell because of the beard.

"Quirrell died after Voldemort took all of his host's power. The ghost/soul of Voldemort went toward you to try and kill you, but something protected you Harry. The sudden power caused all of you symptoms and at the moment are mute because the screams you had hurt your throat. According to Poppy, your throat will heal during summer vacation." Dumbledore said while Harry looked down that he had lost his voice.

Grabbing the parchment again Harry asked how everyone was and how did he know what was going on. Dumbledore eased Harry's mind and told him that his friends were fine, just minor bumps and bruises. He then went on to tell Harry how he had left earlier that day to make it look like he was suddenly called away and would try to force Voldemort's hand. He didn't realize that he still wielded that much power still. He told Harry he was sorry for dragging him into an old man's chess game hoping to ease the young man's mind and make him begin to trust him.

Harry just sat there dumbfounded that Dumbledore would play a move like that, but in the end though he simply just took his glasses off and went back to sleep. Dumbledore told Harry he should rest and that the end of the year feast was coming up in a few days. Because of the current situation, Harry would have to take the final exams he had over the summer with McGonagall proctoring them at his house as she was his head of house.

As Dumbledore prepared to leave, he spotted the box of Bertie Bott's beans. Hoping to get a toffee flavored one or a blueberry pie flavor. Alas though Dumbledore got something that he didn't see coming: vomit. Making his way out of the hospital, he saw that his teammates from quidditch were excited as they managed to win the quidditch cup. They wanted to see Harry and surprise him, but when Dumbledore told them that he was asleep again they all immediately deflated and headed back up to the common room where not even the party that would be considered the beginning of one of the greatest years for Gryffindor could make them happy.

A few days later was released from the Hospital Wing, but it was kind of a bittersweet moment. He had lost his voice and he couldn't talk to any of his friends, plus a few of the older students made fun of him as well. It wasn't all bad though, he was told that the Pervells had sent him a package to thank him for saving the stone. He couldn't wait until he got home to see what was in the package.

The night of the last feast for the year, Harry was surprised that the Great Hall was covered in Gryffindor and Hufflepuff banners. He was told by Neville that Gryffindor had earned the points back through being the top students in class, while Hufflepuff had managed to sneak by Slytherin. Plus when the whole school found out that Harry had been taken by Quirrell to get a powerful object, he was award 150 points for his bravery in the face of danger. Only those who knew the truth actually knew why the points were given.

"Another year has come and gone. We say goodbye to those who are leaving and wish them a bond farewell and wish them best of luck in their future endeavors. Now without further ado. Tuck in." Dumbledore said with his eyes twinkling.

The food had appeared faster than anyone could see, the tables had once again become full of life. The first years were so happy that they survived their first year and were glad that it was over. The older students while happy, began to contemplate that they had to leave soon and were scared of what the future held. Although it wasn't too bad though, the festivities really kicked off when some of the Slytherins were covered in food after one of them were trying to show off what they had learned.

The following day was busy for everyone. The whole school was like it was the first day: loud, rowdy, and joyful. People were saying their goodbyes to the friends that they made, while others made out like crazy with the one they loved. Some though were crying as they were either leaving for good and wanted to stay or were sad that the person they had come to know wouldn't be able to stay in touch because they were going to be gone for the summer. Although for some it was a happy day, a brighter future.

Sitting in the cabin on the Hogwarts Express, Harry thumbed through a book that Hagrid had given him on his way. The book was one that his parents had asked him to hold on to for him. Harry looked at Hagrid like he was hiding something, but the only thing the giant man said was his mom had given him the book to hold on to. Harry just chalked it up to another mystery that was his mother. There were pictures of his mom doing experiments, dancing around in a dress, and even her asking his father to marry her. Though his favorite picture had to be where his mom had painted his father's face in Slytherin colors.

Rubbing his sore throat, Harry wanted to scream at how it was unfair that he had lost his voice. Though it did help with one thing though: he didn't have to make small talk with anyone on the train. Plus with what happened, a lot of people avoided Harry like the plague as they thought that he had a disease after Hermione had explained that there was a mundane disease called laryngitis that can cause what Harry had.

Although he was excited that he survived the first year, he was worried about what would happen next year. He was looking forward to having the chance to unwind from such a crazy school year. That would change though when his mom and grandma heard what happened and prayed that they didn't go ballistic at what happened. Now all was left for Harry was to study for his exams and pass them.

(July 25, 2011)

Summer was in full swing now for the family of three. Harry and Angelina were spending all their time in the pool, Cassie was glad that Harry's voice had healed and that he passed all of his classes with top marks, and Dorea had begun the process in naming Harry heir to the house of Potter. The house was full of laughter and fun as the two were joined by Katie and Alicia, sometimes Neville and the twins would come over to have a 4v4 match of volleyball with Alicia's cousin Natasha. The girls always won because of Natasha's looks distracting the twins, which Harry and Neville decided to use as blackmail on the twins.

Alicia explained that Natasha was one of the top models in America's mundane world, but the coolest thing about the US was the fact that they were the first to open up to the country's leader about the wizarding world. Most thought that the first thing that would happen would be the Salem Witch Trials again, but with understanding and careful negotiations, the two worlds became one and ever since then, a lot of good has happen. Harry was glad that they came to peace, but always felt that it would never happen in Britain because too many of the old pureblood faction and the rich would not allow their world to be sullied by the mundane. The twins were shocked to hear how the fact that if Britain did accept the mundane into their world, how much would change for the wizards and witches of Great Britain.

Nearing his twelfth birthday, Harry began to pace around his room as he always did. While he knew that nothing bad would happen, something would happen. The pacing began to annoy Angelina and Cassie as they heard it for hours for the past few days. Deciding that something needed to be done, Cassie had floo called Dorea to talk some sense into Harry that he was going to make himself sick in worrying. Dorea immediately came over to try and calm Harry down.

Cassie called Harry down to come say hi to his grandmother. Harry rushed down the stairs and immediately hugged her who was surprised at his antics.

"Your mom has been telling me a few things about you lately Harry. You're not eating, you stay awake for hours at night, and now I hear you are pacing like crazy in your room." Dorea said forcing Harry to look at her while she was talking to him.

"I just feel strange grandma. I mean it's like something is happening and unless I do something I feel like I'm going to explode or something. Lately I've felt like I have extra energy and I need to burn it off. I've tried walking, swimming, heck even doing exercise but nothing works." Harry said while Dorea knew immediately what was going on.

"The Potter curse strikes again. You see Harry, the male side of the Potter family is cursed with something that doesn't happen a lot. As a male Potter grows up, he starts to get an enlarged magic core. Now while it doesn't normally start right away, the symptoms are all the same as your father had. The pacing, not eating, little to no sleep, and nothing could help tire him out. You are entering the first of many changes in your life Harry. You are going through a magical puberty and if I'm right, it will be one of many. Now normally a Potter goes through two magical puberties: one at twelve and the second at seventeen. You though have your mother's blood as well meaning that whatever family she was descended from you will have to go through that puberty as well. Now since your birthday is a couple of days away, we will go to the goblins then to finalize the papers as naming you Heir Potter." Dorea said as she Harry twitch nervously on the couch.

Harry just nodded and hoped that it would end soon. Dorea patted her grandson's head and told him it would end on his birthday. Feeling a wave of happiness rush through him, Harry managed to calm down some, but not a whole lot.

The days flew by quick and Harry was waking up excited that his birthday had finally arrived. Harry rushed down the stairs where he saw his mom with a fresh stack of pancakes ready to go and Angelina helping Dorea to her seat. Saying good morning to his family, Cassie placed the pancakes on the table and kissed her son twelve times to signify his age. Harry whined at being kissed, but his mom told him that if he did she would just continue.

As soon as they had finished their breakfast and finished getting ready, Dorea took Harry to Gringotts to perform the Heir ritual. Cassie told them they would join them after they were done to enjoy the day in London. Angelina whispered to Harry about what Natasha had told her about what type of swimwear she would wear next summer. Harry blushed at the type of swimwear she was talking about, as he nearly fainted when he saw Natasha show off her recent purchase.

The trip to Gringotts was a lot easier than normal as most witches and wizards normally didn't start to go to Diagon Alley until the middle of August to get their school supplies. Upon reaching the front desk Dorea began to speak a foreign language to the goblin at the desk who immediately went into the back to get something. Harry stood in confusion as his grandmother grinned at her grandson's face. Before she could say anything to him, someone else began to speak the same language she did.

"Greetings Dorea, how may I help you?" The voice asked which startled Harry as it was another goblin.

"Greeting Master Grimjaw. I'm in need of your service today. My grandson Harry is turning twelve and I wish to name him heir like his father would have wanted me to. Not only that, but I believe that his mother left him something as in a letter she left me, told me of it." Dorea said to Grimjaw who grinned at her.

"Welcome Harry Potter. My name is Grimjaw, master goblin smith and account manager/personal teller of the Potter family. Please follow me to finish your ritual in being named Heir Potter and to find out if anything of your is available to be released." Grimjaw said as Harry just nodded at the man-goblin-thing.

Harry followed Grimjaw to his office and was told to sit. Grimjaw pulled out a knife and a bowl and placed it in front of Harry.

Telling Harry to slice his hand and let the blood drip into the bowl for a few seconds. Following Grimjaw's instructions, Harry sliced his hand relatively easy with the knife and let the blood drip into the bowl. Grimjaw then told Harry to move his hand back and handed him a cloth. Harry grabbed the cloth and wiped the blood off his hand and saw that the cut was healed. Grimjaw who had began to dip a piece of paper in the blood, began reading what the words on it said.

"Harry James Potter, son of James Charlus Potter and Lily Marie Evans-Potter-unknown last name due to restrictions by mother. You are now claimed as Heir Potter and may now wear the Potter heir ring. Also a letter from your mother is available to be read, but as with your mother's last name, you do not meet the requirements yet. A book that your mother left on your family lineage is now available to be viewed though. I will grab it and the ring while you and your grandmother wait in next room. Also your mother told me that you cannot enter her personal vault yet as you must know what to say when the serpent speaks." Grimjaw said as he walked out of his office toward wherever he had to go.

Harry and Dorea went to the waiting area where he could claim his heir ring and read the book his mom left him. Dorea began to explain that he would now have to know Gobbledygook as that was the only way to get business done with the Potter family. Harry groaned as he had to learn a language that was a bunch of weird sounds and grunts. Grimjaw cleared his throat has he held two items.

"Okay Harry, here is your ring. Place it on your right ring finger and you will feel different as you begin to accept the responsibility of being a Potter. Also here is the book that your mother left you. Now I will let your grandmother do whatever she needs to do to finish the ritual and I will leave you alone. If you need me, I will be waiting outside for you two." Grimjaw said as he left the two items and walked out of the room.

Harry placed the ring on his finger and began to feel swirl of magic surround him. The magic that was the ancestral Potter magic began to course through his body and he began to feel different. He felt like he would explode from the sudden increase in power, but his body began to accept it. Soon the feeling went away and he was now Harry Potter, heir to the Ancient and Noble house of Potter.

Grabbing the book that Grimjaw brought out, Harry felt a prick cut his finger and the pages began to become legible. Realizing that his mom had enchanted the book to be read only by those of Potter blood or his mom's blood. He flipped through the book and saw his family tree and began to feel a sense of pride as he saw all of the Potter family. Soon he came upon his parents and smiled sadly as he saw them. Dorea who had looked over his shoulder, saw the names and smiled sadly as well. Harry blinked as he saw another line come from his father. Running his finger on the line Harry saw something that he never saw coming.

"I have a half-sibling?!" Harry shouted while Dorea's eyes widen before she shouted.

"WHAT?!" Dorea Potter shouted before Grimjaw ran in wondering what the hell just happened.

A/N: Well guys that was chapter 6 of Changing Tides. I hope you enjoyed it and please tell me if anything is spelled wrong or I have no spaces between sentences or anthing of the sort. Also I know you guys are wondering who the half-sibling is, before any of you ask or comment it is not any of the three chasers or anyone like Hermione, Susan, or anyone like that. No it's someone who popped in my head and I thought to myself 'Hey that would be a unique twist.' Now let me clarify as few things before you chastise me on them: first I wanted a different ending for Harry and Quirrell, that is why it is different than normal. Second, I wanted to add wrinkles to each of the characters like Katie not liking chess and Alicia being one of the top students for her class. Third, the cousin Natasha came from me rewatching Iron Man 2 and once again I thought, now that's a different name and it will be cool to add an OC with that name as a cousin, she will not play a big part in the story. Lastly, a few of you have messaged me and wrote comments of what to do for the pairing, but I will answer it now. The pairing will remain the way it is with one more person, but they will not play a big role until later chapters. During my time in between writing this and a second story, I realized that I would rather have this story be the simple pairing it is and the second one be the one that people wanted. While I have been focusing on this one, the second one is currently still being edited and not ready yet. Anyway guys, that's all I have to say at this time. Thanks for reading and as always a have good day. "If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals." (JK Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire))

*(7/31/18) I thought about doing an omake where Harry finds out he is the heir to mulitple familes and freaks out. I decided that I might when I have time or someone to help me, will work on a story that makes fun of the cliches that run rampant in Harry Potter stories. For example like this over done and bloated thing:

"So you're telling me I'm Harry James Potter-Black-Pervell-Ravenclaw-Hufflepuff-Gryffindor-Slytherin-Emeris-Hecate-Artemis-Dracula-Evans-Omega-El-Prince-Wayne-Stark. I'm a hybrid human made from blood of Superman, Wonder Woman, Batman, and Iron Man. Also in my veins is a copy of the original super soldier serum that created Captain America. Not only that but I'm the reincarnation of Merlin, the heir to Hogwarts via conquest or blood, and have multiple Greek gods as my family. Anything else Griphook?" Harry said as he rubbed his head from the head that was coming on.

"Yes, you will need a wife for every family name that you now are lord of. So that means you have to marry seventeen women in order to carry on the line. Also congrats Mr. Potter, as you will be one of the richest men in the world.

"I need to marry seventeen women? Oh bloody fantastic." Harry said as he put his head in his hands.

"Oh Harry, you don't need seventeen women. You can just marry me and I will give you seventeen children." Ginny 'the slut' Weasley said as she wanted Harry's money and has had sex with half of the male teachers and students in Hogwarts.

"Harry you must ensure that people have access to those libraries. Think of all of the knowledge that they contain and must be given freely to the people. I also demand that you give me the libraries of of the Hogwarts founders. I mean you obviously won't need them or the Black library as there will be dangerous books in there Harry. I'll also need some money as well, so I can make sure that the books are safe to read." Hermione said with a stuck up attitude.

"I'm afraid Ms. Weasley, you cannot marry Mr. Potter. You have come up as impure and you have a few diseases that if you were to have sex with Mr. Potter will kill him. So you're out as well as Ms. Granger. You cannot become any lady of the houses that Lord Potter has as they have deemed you unworthy of the title. Also she cannot be given the libraries of the families like she would want as only those who are deemed worthy can have them or even read them." Griphook said as Ginny cried out in anger along with Hermione of not being able to read the books that would allow her to further her position in the world.

Harry got up and left the room to go cry and scream in anger as once again fate hated him. As luck would have it though, Harry knew that he had a few people at school who he wanted to know. He immediately apparted into the Great Hall as he was so powerful and the current owner of Hogwarts he could do so. Harry immediately walked straight up to Daphne Greengrass and made out with her in front of everyone. He then kissed Tracey, before kissing Astoria and moving towards his house. Grabbing Angelina he made out with her, Alicia, and Katie. Then he moved to Lavender and Pavarti to kiss them as well along with Padma who was talking with her sister. Walking to the Hufflepuff table, he made out with Susan Bones and Hannah Abbot. Moving toward the Ravenclaw table, Harry made out with Penelope Clearwater, Luna Lovegood, and Su Li. Walking out of the Great Hall everyone stood stunned as what they saw Harry do. No one could believe it, Harry Potter walked straight up to some of the hottest girls in the school and made out with them.

Snape died from a heart attack, Dumbledore choked on a lemon drop, and Umbridge died from overexposure of manliness. McGonagall, Sprout, Flitwick, and a few of the other professors cheered for Harry as he did something to unify the houses. Due to the increase in power, Voldemort died from the power that he didn't know, which was simply Harry being too awesome. Harry did marry to have a wife for each of his seventeen houses, including a few older witches like Fleur Delacour, Nymphadora Tonks, Narcissa Malfoy, and Bellatrix Lestrange as she was the last Lady of the Lestrange family and needed an heir. Plus when she heard that Harry had a bigger wand downstairs and could go for hours, that was all she needed to turn in Voldemort and get laid. Life was good for Harry, he graduated top of his class at sixteen and died at the age of 10,000 years old. Surrounded by his wifes, children, and grandchildren up to 20 times great in some cases.

**(8/5/18) I know you guys are probably unhappy with me, but I'm not like some authors who can just churn out a chapter in a week. I like to have a decent idea of a chapter before I write it. I'll try to increase my work speed when it comes to this, but I will tell you this: I will never create a page where you guys will have to pay me money for a story. I've been noticing a lot of authors starting to do this and it sickens me. Authors are people who are simply playing in the sandbox that is the fanon universe of a known character's world. Not only that, but when you have someone pay you to do a story, you're cheating the owner of the real one. If you're doing a story for a friend for free, okay that's fine, as long as you say you do not own the characters. Sorry about that guys, I just wanted that off my chest.