Harry Potter and Changing Destinies

Chapter 49

As Harry woke up and looked over at his peaceful sleeping wife he couldn’t believe today was the day. Hermione had told all of them the day after the final battle her idea to bring back Sirius from the veil, once she obviously heard from Bri about getting some items that apparently they would need. For the longest time Harry was mad at Hermione first for not telling him what she was up to and then secondly for not letting him in on it until the very end. He understood where she was coming from, she didn’t want to get his hopes up and watch them fall if they failed, but it still hurt that she didn’t tell him.

Then when Hermione explained that as much as she didn’t want to hurt him she really didn’t want to hurt Severus because of his connection to Sirius.

“Man was it weird thinking of Severus Snape as a godfather,” Harry thought.

But he was getting used to it the more time they spent together. The day after Hermione told them all her plan and she had the items they came back her to Safehaven with a now released on strict orders to take his potions and rest Severus. They all had been practicing the ritual in one of the libraries but today was the real thing.

Today they would be trying to bring Sirius, his godfather, one of his last links to his parents back to this world.

“Um, hum good morning Harry,” said his still sleepy wife as she rolled onto her back but before he could reply she had run to the bathroom to retch in the toilet. As he came up behind her and held her hair for her he said, “Are you sure we should be doing this with you and Ali in your conditions?”

“Yes, Harry we’ll be fine” Hermione replied once she stopped retching and wiped her mouth off with her hand. Then she washed her hands and brushed her teeth before she turned to him and kissed him good morning.

“Do you need anything?”

“No, I’m fine. You go down to breakfast I’ll be right behind you once I take my medicine and get dressed ok.”

“Okay, if your sure…”

“I’m sure now go. If have bigger things to worry about than me throwing up.”

“Okay…” Harry said leaving the room completely once he had finished dressing.

Once all of them had eaten and gotten their things around they all headed off to the Ministry which Harry was given access to because he was “hunting Death Eaters that were in hiding”.

The plan was to say they had gotten a tip that a Death Eater was trying to hide in the Department of Mysteries so they could get to the Veil where they would then perform the ritual.

So an hour or so later found all five of them in the room where Harry had thought he’d lost his godfather and dear friend. The ritual had them all spread out throughout the room. The Veil was straight ahead of Severus with the whole room in between. Draco was to Severus’ left and Hermione to his right with that spacing of the room between them. To Draco’s left at the half way point of the room somewhere between Severus and the Veil stood Harry and straight across from him was Ali.

Each held a lit candle in their hands of a different color to represent a different force all a part of bringing Sirius back to them from the realm he found himself trapped in. Harry held a half red, half yellow candle to represent strength both emotionally and physically, determination, and passion as well as emotional healing, health, prosperity. Ali held an all blue candle which represented inspiration and calm. Draco held a violet candle to represent spiritual energy and inner vision. Hermione held a green candle that represented new beginnings, growth and balance. Severus held the most important candle of all though. It was white with a strip of all the colors in it to represent everything the others were trying to as well as blessing, cleansing and an accumulation of energy for the spell to work. On a small stone pedestal in the exact center of the room sat a soul orb made of the most delicate but powerful ancient magic from a time when magical creatures and the magical world got along. A time before time began really.

The spell they were using from the modern wizarding world’s point of view would the muggles’ cliché look at magic, a child’s rhyme for fun, but was really ancient magic many had forgotten. It was simple but powerful. It was exactly what they needed. Draco began with a calm and sure voice:

/We five beseech the ancient powers near and far
Help us in our quest to bring the one circumstances took unfairly/

Then Hermione continued:

/The one who was taken unjustly
We beseech the ancient gods and goddesses please do not bar /

Ali went on:

/Our way into the spirit’s plane
We wish to claim
One soul, one spirit lost to us
We gather here to bring him back to us/

Harry continued:

/We gather in reverence to you, the ancients
We beseech thee to reach through time and space/

Severus finished off the spell:

/And bring him back to us flesh and blood
Soul and spirit complete in this place
In this time we five beseech you the ancients of all
To bring back the one that fell unfairly into the Veil/

In a flash of bright light from the orb and a flare of the candles the flames were split in two and the extra flames were pulled into the Veil by an unseen but definitely felt force and then after they had disappeared for what felt like just a moment they a formless blur of gray and white was flying out of the Veil.

It split two ways hitting Ali and Harry’s candles, bouncing off and going to Draco and Hermione’s where they then bounced off to Severus’s. Once here the blurs surrounded the candle and combined into a swirling and twirling almost formed apparition. It touched Severus’s cheek and then wiped an unseen tear away by the others in the room and flew to the orb as if pulled in. Where the blur and the continuous light from the orb combined. And in a blast of power and light that made the five step back just a bit. Though they knew not to break the star they had created until this faded because consequences could be dire. When the power and light did fade there in the middle of the room, in the middle of their star stood a fully returned, fully alive and complete soul and body and all that made humans alive was Sirius Black. Harry’s godfather and Severus’ partner in all his glory.

Harry and the others should have been embarrassed to see this much of Sirius but they couldn’t get over the shock of seeing him again until of course Sirius spoke up with a, “Hey guys great work but do you mind handing a wizard some clothes. Its so cold in this room I think my pecker’s gonna go blue.”

“Sirius!” Harry yelled as he launched himself at his godfather.

“Sirius, oh my…” Hermione gasped as she stepped closer until Sirius pulled her to him in a hug.

“Welcome to the family legally, my dear. You were always apart of it in every way before.”

This made Hermione cry into his shoulder as Harry clung to him crying in joy.

“Draco my boy I see you didn’t come your father, that’s great! And how is my lovely cousin?”

“Which one, cousin Sirius?” Draco said with a smirk as he too was hugged by his long time estranged cousin.

“Ha ha you’re a funny one,”

“Ali my lovely girl, come here and stop that foolish crying.” He said as he brought Ali to his chest.

As everyone cried and hugged and prayed this wasn’t a dream they heard a clatter. When they turned to see what it was they found Severus standing with his mouth quivering trying to hold back tears that were already flowing down his face. The candle on the floor a foot away from him. He just stood there frozen in shock, there in front of him surrounded by Draco, Ali, Hermione, and Harry was his true and only love Sirius Black.

“Sirius!? Oh my…are you…” Severus asked as he slowly stepped forward.

“Real, Love? Yeah I am.” Sirius said as he stepped towards Severus.

When he was close enough he pulled Severus fully against his body. As the men wrapped themselves around each other as if to become one being so they could never be separated again. The four young adults didn’t wish to interrupt the two men especially when they saw that the two men were shaking from their tears but they had to get out of the Department soon. Before someone came to check on things.

Hermione walked over to a small gym bag they had brought with them and stepped to the two men, “Um, Professor…Sirius…we need to get out of here soon. We brought some of your clothes from Ali’s to wear. Here,” she said handing Sirius his clothes.

“Thank you, Mione my girl. Your right we need to get out of here. We have time to catch up once we’re out of here.”

So, they waited as Sirius got dressed and then all six of them walked out of the room and proceeded out of the Department and back to the main part of the Ministry.

They all just walked straight for the exit with only one person stopping them by asking how or why Sirius Black was with them. All Harry said as they continued on your way was, “I’ll explain it all later on not right now.”

Once outside the Ministry they all went into an alley and apparated to Ali’s. Where they had a huge dinner and sat around catching up. They stayed up late into the night just talking and celebrating being alive and together. At one point during the night the newly reunited couple took Ali aside to tell her they were her godfathers to which she just smiled and said, “Good, I wouldn’t want any others.”

About midnight the four teens left the men alone sitting in front of a huge fire to talk and get to know one another again.

The next morning found the two men asleep on the floor wrapped together in a blanket one of the servants must have thrown over them so they wouldn’t get cold when the fire finally went out.