Disclaimer: I would like to say that I do not own the world of Harry Potter in any way, and hopefully I'm not breaching any ebil copywrite laws with this humble fic. It's not mine, and don't you people ever get tired of looking at these disclaimer things? Because I sure do.
THIS IS IMPORTANT: The Prophesy says that old Voldie gets to mark the person whom he wishes to fight, in this fic that's not true. Harry is the person no matter what ol' red-eyes did/does/will do. Thanx.
Summary:When Harry is forced into a dimension parallel to his own, apparently by accident, he discovers that his parents are alive and he has the family he has always wanted. But not all things are so rosy. Although it may not seem like it on the surface, the world he is in now is sinking fast, and like any catalyst, his arrival bodes that things are about to get a whole lot worse as the evil that has been creeping under the surface, makes itself known.
Chapter One – The Sunny Days
It was not the way it should have been, he decided, watching it carefully, along with the rest of the class.
He'd missed an ingredient, or perhaps stirred it to many times to the right after he'd put in the Scorpion hearts. Neville had called him when he was in the middle of pouring in the Dried Armadillo Skin, so perhaps his hand had tilted just a little too far…
Surveying the disgusting looking liquid he scrunched his nose up in distaste, not caring who saw him. There were a few snickers from around the room, but at large, silence reigned. He turned his gaze back to the Professor.
Who cared anyway? It was only potions.
Mind you… with a creep like Snape for a teacher… Maybe he should be concerned…?
"You don't actually expect me to drink that, or anything, do you?" his voice quite clearly portrayed his disbelief to the greasy haired man. Determined, and slightly amused, emerald eyes looked at Severus Snape as though he must be on crack.
His attitude did not seem to impress the teacher.
"You will test your own potion, Potter, just as I told you we would be doing at the beginning of the lesson!" Harry reached up a hand and pulled it through his hair, quite deliberately. He looked at the teacher incredulously.
Did the git actually expect him to have been listening to a word he said at the beginning of the lesson? Why was he a teacher? Had he never been a student?
"Do you really think I will? Well, think again, Snape. I refuse to poison myself for your amusement" Harry turned around quickly and made for the door, wondering at his own recklessness; had someone slipped something into his breakfast that morning?
Or was he simply getting sick and tired of all the shit he had put up with from Snape over the years?
Either way.
He didn't make the door in time.
"Mr Potter" he heard from behind him.
People had, over time, described Snape's voice as silky.
Harry, however, could only describe it as a One Way Portal to Hell.
"I do believe that I asked you to try this potion, which you have prepared. Now please, or I shall be forced to take four hundred points from Gryffindor for your blatant lack of respect and obvious impediment to follow simple orders! Now please, Mr Potter!"
The Gryffindors in the class all shifted angrily, undecided on whom they should support: Four hundred points was a hell of a lot of points… but the potion didn't look like such a good option either.
But for Harry… Desperation led to a quick decision.
Harry walked, somewhat reluctantly, towards the angry potions master.
He felt that somewhere inside him, there was a part of him struggling to tell him that even looking at the vile potion would spell his D-O-O-M. Harry wanted to agree with it, and really, he did.
But then… there always was that Hero complex he'd picked up someplace.
When he was a foot from the potion, the Potions Master quite obviously picked up some boomslang skin, and chucked it into the potion with a careless swish of his hand.
Harry followed its progress with dread.
"Oops, how very… irresponsible of me… Well, Mr Potter? I am waiting"
There was nothing for it, Harry thought with mental dread.
He swallowed the potion.
The last thing he saw before a cloud of green enveloped him, was Snape's surprised, but nonetheless pleased face.
Then the ceiling… and a field full of yellow sunflowers…
Dear Diary,
It was a Sunday.
The day that Harry Potter died.
He was four.
It was during the end of the Fall that it happened. All of the trees
had lost their leaves, and everyone was sure that winter would be
starting tomorrow, chilling winds were blowing and the temperature had
sunken quickly.
He was wandering in the cold ground, searching for snow that hadn't
yet fallen. He wandered onto the road and a car came hurling around
the corner.
The driver tried to stop, but he was going too fast. Harry never
stood a chance. I sometimes wonder what the driver must have felt as
the car shifted a little, like it had hit a bump as it bulldozed my
brother into the road.
My parents told me that the man went into counselling for two years
after the incident, and that he has never driven again.
Good.
But we're living in the middle of a war. My
sister and I live in England now, we have ever since my brother died,
and right now there just happens to be an evil wizard trying to take
over the world.
Not that it's all that unusual.
I've told you a lot about my brother, but nothing much about my sister
or me.
At the moment I'm fourteen years old, but my birthday is in My name is Cody Ryan Potter, and my twin sister is called Gypsy
two days, so this year I'm going to be in my fifth year at Hogwarts.
If my brother were alive he'd be a year older than me and in his
sixth.
Adelaide Evans. we both love chocolate. Our best friends are Luna
Lovegood and since last year Ginny Weasley as well. Ginny's brother
is Ron Wealsley, a guy you seriously don't want to mess with, not to
mention he's best friends with Neville Longbottom.
Yes, that's right: THE Neville Longbottom
The boy-who-lived.
The Neville Longbottom who defeated the evil lord Voldemort when he The only thing that Neville Longbottom ever did was escape from
was only five years old, the Neville Longbottom who was meant to have
saved the philosophers stone, defeated a basilisk, put a traitor back
inside Azkaban, Got past the Triwizard tournament, escaped the
reincarnated Voldemort and saved an ancient prophesy from the
department of mysteries.
Voldemort, and perhaps even defeat him.
Temporarily.
The rest of that stuff - he wouldn't know a thing about. The main reason for that Isn't it funny how it all works out? My sister, prank extraordinaire, And can you believe it - we're going back to Canada for the rest of the And that's all I'm going to write.
is because he didn't do them. My sister and I did.
and me, quiet bookworm, as well as Luna, intelligent and stimulative
because of her crazy ideas and theories, it's us who should be praised
for all of those things, and yet it's always Longbottom who ends up
with the awards.
holidays.
Gypsy was the first out of the fire to inspect the holiday lodge.
She had been eager to get there and visit the place she had lived in as a child. The house was medium sized and outside she could see the white world of winter. She smiled and sat down on her luggage, waiting for the rest of her family to arrive.
The next to come out of the fire was her father, he grinned at her and moved out of the way so Cody and her mom could come through. When they were all there with their bags and assorted pieces of furniture (Gypsy had tried to bring the kitchen sink as a joke, but Lily had magickd it back into the kitchen before they left) Lily clapped her hands together and looked at them all excitedly.
"As you know we're going to be staying here until the end of the holidays, so that means we've got three weeks to enjoy Canada and all she has to offer. So now, rules; no flying unless you have special permission from either myself or your father, be in bed by twelve every night. Any later and you'll be grounded inside the house for two weeks. I want you home for dinner every night otherwise same rules apply. And you have to have a great time! Why don't you two go on up stairs and choose your rooms, but no fighting!"
Gypsy didn't even hear her last words; she had already sped upstairs, eager to beat her brother.
Quickly claiming the room facing South she turned to her brother and poked out her tongue, but he only rolled his eyes good-naturedly at her.
"I didn't want this room anyway; I've got my old one. Mum and dad told me to tell you that they've gone back to our house to talk to Sirius and Remus, they won't be back until later. If you had have stayed you could have said goodbye" he told her, and she frowned, before cheering up and shrugging.
"Oh, I'll talk to them later. They'll be home for supper won't they?" she asked, and Cody nodded.
"Right then! Let's explore! I want to go sleighing?" Gypsy paused when she noticed Cody had left the room. His voice came drifting along from the corridor.
"I think I'll stay here. No slogging through snow for me. I don't like all the exercise stuff, as you know"
"But it's snow Cody! Lets go tobogganing!" She burst out into the corridor and followed Cody's voice as he answered her from another room. "What are you doing Cody?"
"I'm looking at the other spare room" he answered her as she came up abreast to him, standing outside a white door, obviously trying to get in.
"Is it locked?" he turned and gave her a scowl before replying.
"No shit, Sherlock" she grinned; her brother swearing was not a particularly rare thing, but he certainly had some pretty funny phrases.
He caught her grin and his scowl turned into a glower as he moved aside, motioning for her to try and work her magic. She shrugged at the challenge and moved forward, but before she had reached the door there was a laud thump from inside.
They both froze in surprise and confusion.
"What the hell?" Gypsy asked quietly. Cody motioned for silence, apparently waiting for something else to happen. Nothing did; there was no more noise and the door didn't suddenly burst into flames.
They traded confused looks.
"What was that?" Cody asked just as quietly as his sister had, apparently feeling the need to whisper.
"A thump?" her voice was filled to the brim with sarcasm, although she was still whispering. He scowled at her again.
"Oh well done captain obvious" he muttered, and she poked out her tongue at him, screwing up her face in the process, which ended up making her look so ridiculous he had to fight the urge to start laughing. She gave him a quick grin and pointed to the door, before pointing to her wand. He shook his head, and made a cutting motion to his throat.
"Well… It's an emergency! We just heard an unidentifiable thump coming from a locked room in our house, which no one should know the location of. We were scared. We thought that it might be something dangerous and thought we could perhaps take it by surprise" Cody rolled his eyes to the heavens.
"There are some definite problems in your theory, but I won't point them all out becau – what are you doing!" he whispered furiously, dropping his voice.
Gypsy had stood up and was making her way towards the door. She already held her wand at the ready and was motioning for Cody to back her up.
He shook his head furiously.
Gypsy shrugged and pointed her wand at the door.
"Alohamora!" It clicked open, and Cody was forced to pull his wand up and stand, waiting for whatever was in the room to attack.
Nothing moved, and after a few seconds Gypsy lent forward and suddenly kicked the door in, her wand pointing to where she thought the culprit of the noise might be.
"Freeze!" she shouted.
After a few seconds of freezing while they waited for something to ignore the order, both Gypsy and Cody looked around the room in confusion.
There was nothing there apart from a collection of old baby things.
Again they traded glances.
"Wait, what's that Cody?" She moved forward, her wand pointed down at the thing. And suddenly, as she moved closer towards the thing, she saw what it was. She gasped and ran forward, her wand forgotten, Cody called after her, but she ignored him.
"My God, Cody he's hurt, we need to get him to a healer, like, now" She lifted the strangers head into her lap.
Cody came over quickly and took in the situation. He knelt down and picked up one of the boys lifeless hands, obviously trying to pull him up.
As he did so, he looked at the boys face… And noticed a lightning blot shaped scar on his forehead.
Cody gasped and recoiled slightly from the body, dropping both of his hands. The heavy sound of them hitting the carpeted floor made a sickening thump; similar to the one they had heard before.
"That's the noise we heard" Cody observed softly, recovering from his shock, watching the stranger quietly. Gypsy nodded frantically, turning to her brother.
"He's obviously got internal bleeding, judging by the blood pouring out of his mouth, which means some of his organs might be damaged. This is bad by the way Cody! As well as that, he's got a few bruises, but I think that might be from when he landed, is that the right word? Anyway, they're probably from when he fell and landed on the floor" he grinned at her, obviously pleased with his sister's knowledge on the subject.
"Well for now let's assume you're right. Come one, lets get him down to the fireplace, we can take him to St. Mungos and firecall dad from there, I'm sure that they'll let us" Cody suggested, pointing towards the door as he picked up the bays arms again. Gypsy nodded, adding her approval to the plan of action.
"Yeah, okay. He needs medical attention as soon as possible. Come on, levitate him, I don't know any other spells that'll work. We'd better hurry" Cody nodded and raised his wand casting the charm quickly, before floating the boy down to the fireplace. He turned to Gypsy.
"I'll go through with him first, you can come after, wait a few secs so I can get him out of the way then come through. Ok, I'm going now" he picked up a handful of floo, and dumped some in his pocket, before throwing the rest into the flames and shouting for St. Mungo's emergency ward.
As soon as he arrived, two nurses rushed forward to help him up.
By the time he had recovered his spinning head, one of the nurses had already taken the dark haired boy away. He blinked in surprise, but supposed it was an emergency ward. The fire behind him flashed blue and he quickly stood back, seeing the doctors rushing forward he shook his head.
"It's just my sister" they nodded in recognition and stepped backward, waiting for the next floo emergency.
Gypsy came out, dark hair streaming behind her with electric blue streaks somewhat less visible with all the sooty grime in her hair. He grinned and tousled it for her. She glared at him, before patting her hair back down and looking around curiously.
"Where'd the kid go?" she asked.
Cody grinned, suddenly feeling very reassured and relieved now that the emergency was over. His sister grinned back at him before they both burst into spontaneous giggles.
"They took him away as soon as I arrived; I guess that it's good I ended up calling for the emergency ward, I bet it wouldn't have been so easy if we went to the normal one" she nodded, agreeing with him.
"You gave me a bit of a surprise when you said the emergency ward, I'm glad I heard you else I would be standing with no idea in the entrance going 'now where'd he say...?'" she smiled at him, punching his arm lightly in slight annoyance "Typical you!"
"Typical me" they laughed again, before simultaneously shushing each other as a nurse made his way over, obviously carrying news.
But before the nurse could even open his mouth to tell them the news, Gypsy had butted in.
"We're awfully sorry about this sir, but when we found him in our house we were so surprised and he looked in pretty bad condition so we thought that we should get him to a doctor, I mean, a healer, as soon as possible. We weren't sure wether or not we should bring him to the emergency ward or not, but seeing as how our mother works here we thought we should even though we didn't know if he was critical so – " the nurse held up his hands as she took a big breathe seemingly ready to continue. Cody took no chances and simply covered her mouth with his hands.
"Sorry about that" he said to the nurse pleasantly, ignoring his struggling sister "please go on"
"Well I have to say it's a good thing you did bring him here and not to the normal ward, he certainly classifies as critical. A muggle phrase?" Gypsy nodded, shaking off her brothers hands, the nurse smiled at the glaring teenager before continuing.
"But we're going to need some details about the patient and yourselves. Do your parents know you're here?" he asked the routine question and paused when the two shook there heads.
"It was an emergency" Gypsy said stressing the last word, just to make sure the man understood; the nurse nodded wryly.
"Yes, I think I know that better than you. But before we can continue I need you to contact them. You can use the floo over there" the nurse pointed towards several fireplaces tucked away in a corner that were public fireplaces. Gypsy nodded, but pulled out her cellphone.
"Reckon we can call them?" she grinned at him easily as he pushed her hand down with a roll of the eyes.
"Get a life Gyp. Now, moving on from that idiotic question. Sir, do you think we could borrow some powder, I've only got some of the travelling stuff, so I can't really call them" the nurse nodded and pointed to a desk on one side of the room. Cody thanked him and walked over before going over to the fires labelled as 'communication'.
He threw the powder into the flames before sticking his head in and asking for Godric's Hollow.
His view of fire cleared, and he was suddenly looking at the living room of his home. Seeing that his parents wheren't in the living room, he paused to see if he could hear them chatting in the kitchen. He called out loudly, and was rewarded as Sirius stuck his head out.
Cody groaned in mock terror as Sirius's face morphed into an angelic look.
"No! I didn't want you! Stay away! Mom! Dad! Help me!" his parents wandered out bemusedly, watching as their son laughed with his godfather. Sirius grinned and sat down, while his parents stood, waiting to hear what he had to say.
"What's up kid? I assume you didn't come here just to see my gorgeous face" Sirius's preened. But his smile was infectious and soon Cody was chuckling slightly. In a few moments he sobered and looked at his parents.
"Bad news down this end I'm afraid" as his serious tone his parents came forward, obviously waiting to see what the problem was. Sirius also stopped his erratic giggles in favour of listening to the convocation.
Cody looked at his parents before glancing away; he had his suspicions about whom, or what, had been in his brother's old room. He gulped.
"At the moment Gypsy and me aren't at home – " before he could get any further, Remus, who had come in after his parents stopped him, asking the obvious question.
"Where are you then?" he asked, concern creasing his face. Cody looked down, studying the tiles on the floor that paved the fireplace.
"Well, we're kinda at St.Mungosemergencyward" he coughed, and looked down, waiting for them to figure out what he had said.
After a few seconds, they did.
"WHAT! WHY?" he couldn't help but give a small laugh which he quickly turned into a cough at the look on his parents and godfathers face.
"Heh, just thought I should let you know" Cody said nervously and then he vanished with a load pop from the fireplace, leaving James, Lily, Sirius and Remus to stare at the empty fire.
After a pause where all four adults seemed to actually be thinking, Sirius grinned and turned to James.
"I didn't know Cody was a prankster Jamsie, why didn't you ever tell me?" James, however, was frowning and Lily looked downright terrified. Sirius slid his gaze to Remus who also looked somewhat confused.
"He's not Sirius. The only time Cody came across the word 'prank' was when he was reading the shorter oxford dictionary. Now come on we need to get to the emergency ward" Sirius nodded quickly, seeing that James was perfectly serious. He walked forward and grabbed the powder, threw it into the fire and stepped into it a second later.
As soon as Sirius arrived Cody, who had obviously been standing by, helped him up with a wry grin that clearly said 'knew you'd be coming'.
Sirius grinned in return and turned to quickly look for Gypsy, who was sitting in a chair near them. He sighed in relief when he saw that neither of the twins were hurt, and gave Cody a quick hug before trundling over to his sister and leaving Cody to receive his irate father.
Cody scowled and motioned for Gypsy
"Oi! Gyp! Your turn, I told you I'd take the first one, and you could have the second!" His sister pouted at him but came over all the same. Just as she arrived their father stepped out of the flames and pulled them into one of the tightest hug they'd ever had.
"Air... is... becoming... a... problem" they both choked out at the same time. James, over their shoulders, grinned at the arched eyebrow Sirius had adopted. Before letting go of the twins and glaring at the two.
"Don't you ever do that again! You scared me senseless! Not to mention your mother! She almost fainted!" Cody grimaced and looked down, Gypsy however looked confused.
"He didn't tell you anything?" James shook his head mutely and they both turned to Cody. His son was examining the floor with renewed interest.
He gulped again as his father's inquisitive look landed on him. However, before Cody could say anything, Lily and Remus arrived simultaneously, and as soon as they appeared the nurse turned up and started leading them to one of the private rooms.
"We've stabilised him, but he's still not going to get out of this totally unharmed. We're guessing he consumed a potion of some sort because his internal organs have taken quite a beating, and that can only usually happen with specific potions, we're not sure which yet. It can't be a spell, or at least not any we recognise. The bruises have nothing to do with his internal condition, so we're assuming that he might have fallen, we still need to get your details but we thought you might want to see him, he's just woken up" and before any of them could protest, the nurse had shoved them all through a door and closed it behind them.
They all stood there; the four adults and two children looking at the teenager on the bed.
The teenager looked up as they walked in and frowned as soon as he saw them. He opened his mouth, and when he spoke, it was in a quite and controlled tone, although they could all hear the anger beneath it.
"Who are you? Where am I?" they looked at each other in confusion, but did not reply so the boy continued "How did I get here? The last thing I remember… I can't remember! Who are you? Am I… a prisinor? I don't know anything! Where am I? How did I leave… wherever I was…?" the kids green eyes glittered with confusion, but he continued to glare at them accusingly.
Gypsy was squinting at him then turned suddenly to Cody eyes wide and surprised. Cody nodded, confirming his own suspicions as much as hers. The green-eyed boy watched this warily.
"You're Deatheaters, aren't you? God you're so young! Still" he said thoughtfully "they tried to recruit me at age eleven, maybe there is no 'too young' in your books" he turned away from them and looked down to the other side of the bed, apparently deciding that if he really had fallen into the unsavoury clutches of Voldemort's supporters, silence was the best option.
Gypsy suddenly strode forward, Cody a step behind her.
"Take that back! I wouldn't join those stinking excuses for humans ever! Even if it killed me!" she raged at him. The kid turned to look at her slowly, his eyes seemed to bore holes into her mind and she felt as if he was looking into her very soul.
Finally he looked down and away
"Perhaps it will kill you" his voice was bitter, but he no longer looked like he wanted to murder her. He flicked his restless eyes towards the cult of adults who were all staring at him, before returning his gaze to Gypsy.
"No, perhaps you aren't a deatheater after all. But in that case, who are you? Why am I here? How did I get here? Who are they? Why do they look like people I used to know who died when I was young? Questions, questions" he looked up at her suddenly "Why should I believe you, Gypsy?" she took a step backwards at his intense tone and he grinned at her reaction.
"Nah, I'm just fooling with you. You seem like a decent enough kid"" he gave her a lop-sided smile and flicked his eyes over to the grown-ups, answering her un-asked question.
"Maybe next time you find an unconscious stranger you should check to see if he's actually unconscious" his impish grin made her smile and blush slightly, but then she frowned, thinking of something.
"But then you knew I wasn't a deatheater without having to…" she paused, not knowing what he had done "…whatever you did" she finished, somewhat lamely.
The boy nodded.
"But I didn't know if they were. Their reactions were enough to know that they aren't. But they think I am. Isn't that ironic?" He looked down, suddenly tired.
"What's your last name?" he asked.
Cody came forward and took the teens hand in his own. He shook.
"Potter. Cody" he pointed at himself, and then at his sister "Gypsy Potter. But the real question should be why you're here, and how it happened?" Cody reached forward and rearranged the kids fringe before sat down, his sister quickly followed.
They had both picked up on what his action meant.
"Snape" the teenager said mockingly "Greasy bastard that he is made me drink some potion that Neville Longbottom made in class. Ai Gods! I think he was trying to kill me! Wouldn't be the first time, that's for sure!" he sighed and glared moodily at the wall. Everybody else in the room traded looks, even the adults were included in the raising of eyebrows.
"Neville, huh? I thought he was good at potions" Harry, who had started to take a sip of water from one of the glasses started to cough like mad, and looked like he was about to choke to death. Finally he stopped, breathing heavily and looking at Cody with such wide eyes the boy found himself slightly alarmed.
"You what?" Gypsy smirked at the look on both her brothers and the 'strangers' face.
"That bad huh? Well, he did come second top in the year last year in potions. Didn't he Cody?" Cody nodded, seeing the humour as Harry looked like he was going to faint.
"Haha, funny. Now lets be serious. Neville Longbottom, we are talking about Neville Longbottom here, aren't we? Damnit, this is even worse than I thought!" Both Cody and Gypsy were laughing at the look of incredulity on the teenagers face.
"So, have we figured out when Neville was kidnapped and who the intruder is yet?" he said with a grin, which only made Cody and Gypsy laugh harder. After a few moments they fell silent, the confused looks their parents were shooting them weighing the mood down.
"We haven't even been properly introduced yet. Ok, You start" Gypsy nodded and stood up, dramatic as always.
"My name is Gypsy Adelaide Evans. I took my mothers name so that my twin brother and I could be more independent from each other, and not necessarily be associated in everything we do. I am fourteen years old and my birthday is August the 9th. I have black hair with blue streaks and my eyes are Hazel, from my dad"
"My name is Cody Ryan Potter. I took my fathers name 'cose Gypsy insisted, and because he's my father. I am fourteen years old and my birthday is August the 9th. I have black hair which is always messy and my eyes are blue, from my grandma. I enjoy reading and have been made prefect for the upcoming year at Hogwarts. I am a Gryffindor"
"I'm a Gryffindor too, just forgot to mention that, now, it's your turn"
"My name is Harry James Potter. I was born on the 31st of July in 1980 and the next year on Halloween I went to live with my aunt and uncle. I am sixteen. I have black hair which I'm growing, and my eyes are green; the colour of my mothers. I was not made a prefect but I am in Gryffindor. And like I said; my name is Harry James Potter. Hello" Gypsy and Cody both smiled at him
"Hullo Harry James Potter"
Edit 25.1.06: decided to fix up a lot of grammar/spelling mistakes, but that doesn't mean there won't be any left in here, sorry if there is. Hope this is better than the one it's replacing (it would be kinda bad if it was worse! D:) Slightly changed a few reactions, hope it fits in with the next chapter! I plan on re-writing/editing them all, so eventually it'll make more sense! ;P
A/N: Ok. THIS WILL NOT BE A SLASH FIC. Just thought i'd get that over and done with.
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