Timeless

Chapter 4

Harry groaned as he came to and nearly jumped out of his skin when Hermione appeared out of nowhere and hugged him, “Are you okay, Harry? What happened?”

He blinked a few times and put his hand to his head, “Yeah, I’m fine. How’s Lucius?”

“I just woke with you, Harry,” a voice from his left said. “A little bit of a headache, not much else.”

Albus, Poppy, and Severus came in and as Poppy bustle over both patients, Severus cleared the Infirmary and Albus conjured three chairs. “Now, my boys, can you tell us what happened? You’ve been out for about two weeks.”

Now propped up, Harry looked over at Lucius and silently asked him a question to which the blonde shook his head. “We hit a connection between our past selves and now. We’ve figured out a way to destroy Voldemort.”

“Excellent, boys, excellent,” Albus said, standing. “Well, I’ll let you get ready for the day and if you could come and talk to me about this revelation you have had that would be great. Good day, Everyone.” With that the eccentric elderly wizard left the hospital wing to the relief of those in there. Albus looked back at the closed doors and wished they had told him everything and begun his plot to see that Harry and Lucius were finally able to be together in this life. Chuckling to himself, he returned to his office and finished the plans for the Order.

~~~

Meanwhile back in the hospital wing…

“He let that go to easily,” Harry muttered to himself, while Lucius and Severus talked about what had been going on. Groaning, Harry raised his hand to his scar which was beginning to hurt, “Oh shit,” was all Harry said before he was pulled into a vision.

“Ah, Mr. Potter, back with the land of the living I see,” Voldemort said from across the room. “Now what could have happened that you would go completely unconscious?”

Harry snorted, “Just learning how to kill you, Snakeface.”

“Crucio,” the Dark Lord said, Harry gritting his teeth in pain didn’t give him what he wanted. Releasing the spell, “Well, now, that is a surprise. Have my two little spies been helping you. I will kill Lucius and Severus for their betrayal.”

Harry stood on shaking legs, “You’ll have to go through me to get to them. They are no longer yours.” Focuses on the feelings from his past he gathered up the energy and through it at Voldemort.

The white energy hit the Dark Lord, who screamed and vanished.

Harry sat straight up, or would have if there hadn’t been hands holding him down.

“Mr. Potter, lay down this instant,” Poppy said sternly. “Cruciatus curse.” She went to her store room.

Lucius’ head came into view, “What happened?”

“Voldemort wanted to say hello find out where I had been the last three days. Cursed me, taunted me, and then I cursed him and sent him back into his own mind,” Harry said. “I gleamed a bit of information from his mind.”

“What information, Mr. Potter?” Snape asked.

Harry smirked, “His complete knowledge of the Dark Arts.”

Severus and Lucius both smirked, turning to each other and with a silent conversation, both nodded. Severus looked back down at Harry, “Seems as if we have more to train you on. Excellent timing.” Harry chuckled at the look.

Poppy came back and handed him the potion for pain, “Drink it all and then you can leave as long as someone is going to be with you at all times.”

Harry downed the potion, grimaced and said, “Don’t worry, Madame Pomfrey, I have to talk to Mr. Malfoy any way.” The nurse nodded and left them alone. “Shall we get started?”

~~~

For the next two months, Severus and Lucius trained Harry hard and fast. He learned everything there had been to know about the Dark Arts and the Defense Against the Dark Arts than he had originally wanted to know, plus a whole lot more. By May, Harry was more than ready for this fight.

Sitting in Severus’ quarters doing his homework, he looked up when Severus tapped him on the shoulder, “What?”

“I have been trying to get your attention for five minutes and all I get is a ‘What?’. Why do I put up with children?”

Harry snorted, “Sorry, Severus. What did you asked me?”

“I asked whether you or Lucius were ever going to tell me what happened or where you two went last weekend,” Severus said, raising his trade-marked eyebrow, as if to tell him now or there’d be hell to pay.

Harry smiled innocently, “We got married.” He almost burst out laughing at the completely shocked look on Severus’ face as he sat down in one of the chairs. Ten minutes later, when Lucius walked in, Severus was still standing in the same position.

“I take it you told him,” Lucius said, waving a hand in front of his friend’s face. “Severus, you okay?” Snapping his fingers, a bucket of ice cold water drenched the dark wizard, who sputtered. Waving him dry and maneuvering him to a chair, Lucius chuckled, “I hope you got a photo of that.”

Harry laughed, “Oh, I did.”

Severus had recovered and saw them sitting across from him and just blinked for a second before yelling, “When the hell did this happen?”

“You must swear that you won’t tell anyone, first, before we tell you anything and that includes us being married,” Harry said, after recovering.

“You have my Wizard’s Honor and Oath,” Severus said.

Lucius smirked, “Let’s start at the beginning.”

~~~

Harry was still snickering when he got to the Entrance Hall the next morning to meet his friends to go to Hogsmeade.

“What’s so funny, Harry?” Ron asked as Harry finally made it to them.

“I just shocked Snape so bad with a joke that it took Lucius to dumping ice cold water on him to break him out of it,” Harry said, chuckling a little louder. “I mean he stood there for like ten minutes. I couldn’t stop laughing for about twenty after he came back to himself.”

Ron laughed while Hermione scoffed, “Harry that is mean. What’d you say?”

Harry snorted, “That Lucius and I got married.” He walked a few more feet before he realized that Ron and ‘Mione weren’t with him anymore. Looking back, both Ron and Hermione were standing stock still. “Guys, I’m just kidding.”

Hermione shook her head, “It’s just so unimaginable.” She smacked Ron on the arm, “Come on, Ron, you want to go to Honeyduke’s right?”

Ron blinked a few times, “Yeah, I need to replace my fudge supply. Someone keeps eating it all.” He grabbed Harry and started tickling him.

“Hey, didn’t you believe me when I said that Snape went blank it had to have been good,” Harry said, while trying to get away from Ron.

They laughed the rest of the way down to the wizarding city. Majority of the afternoon was spent in Honeyduke’s, WWW, and local bookstore (Hermione only) before they started to head towards Three Broomsticks and a nice warm butterbeer. Sounds of apparation had all three heading for their wands, when a voice had them raising them and stand in a fighting stance.

“Mr. Potter, how good of you to come to your killing,” Voldemort hissed, barely raising his wand.

Harry actually smirked, “You know, you are probably the dumbest Dark Lord in a century. I would have preferred Grindlewald to you.” While he taunted and ducked out of the way of the spells coming at him he was gathering energy for the spell he knew would finish off Tom Riddle. “Tom, may I call you Tom? You have been a thorn in my side and I was glad when I finally found a way to kill you so good bye and I hope you like hell.” Harry put his hand out just as the Dark Lord fired Avada Kedavra at him. The spell was absorbed into his hand and fired back out as a pure white light. A blinding white light filled the area and when it cleared, there was nothing but a pile of smoking ashes where the Dark Lord had stood. Ron and Hermione ran over to him. “Oh good, he’s dead.” Ron barely caught Harry before he hit the ground.

Rosemerta came out, “Thank him for us, Miss Granger.”

Hermione smiled, “Will do.”

~~~

Harry, Ron, and Hermione hid from the world as they finished up their seventh year, which was only a few weeks. The press did all they could to get to Harry before he got fed up with them and vanished them back to their offices with no memory of what they had been doing.

Lucius and Severus kept averting the Headmaster as he tried to put his plan into motion before Harry left Hogwarts for good. To no avail though, as anything he tried was foiled and un-hatched before it could happen, which was frustrating to know end for the aging wizard.

On the day of graduation, Harry was sitting with Ron and Hermione by the lake, “Guys, I won’t be there for the ceremony. I’m leaving now to travel.”

Hermione just smiled, “You’ll write us, right?”

“Of course, you two are my family, along with a few snakes and a meddling old man, and definitely tell me when you plan on getting married,” Harry said, as his friends blushed and held hands. “I love you both. Tell Albus, I’ll owl him once I have reach my destination.” They walked to the gate and hugged one last time. “See you around.”

Hermione waved while Ron put an arm around her shoulder before they headed in to tell the Headmaster that Harry had left. “Safe travels, brother, we’ll be seeing you.”