Harry Potter - Series Fan Fiction ❯ Harry Potter and the Other World ❯ Blast from the Past ( Chapter 5 )

Chapter 5: Blast from the Past

 

 

Harry woke up the next day after a dreamless night. Taking a shower and getting dressed Harry went to the kitchen for breakfast. Along the way Harry ran into Hermione. “What are you doing Hermione?”

 

“I'm sorry about yesterday Harry, I didn't mean it, I wouldn't leave here and leave you alone. I was approached by a Death Eater but I didn't join them Harry, I swear on my life I didn't betray you.”

 

“I believe you Hermione, if I hadn't I would have had you kicked out of here like Remus wanted to do but I believe you so don't worry Hermione.”

 

“Alright Harry, thanks.” Harry had forgiven her again hoping she would forgive him for what he did, it didn't work, hadn't so far anyways.

 

They went through the month reading, studying, talking, going outside, and being friends. Harry and Hermione tried to get Monica to join them but most they got was Monica not throwing things or yelling at Harry when he stood in the hallway outside her door. Harry was getting excited, his birthday was one day away, soon he would be 16 years old, and soon he would be one year away from being an adult. Harry and Hermione were also getting nervous, the OWLs were suppose to come that day and they could only wait for them. Hermione went crazy whenever something flew by even if it was something like a leaf being blown by the wind so when she said two Owls were coming Harry didn't pay attention until he had a brown feather ball flying around his head.

 

“Get out, just drop them and get out!” Harry tried to make the bird leave but it just flew around before taking a resting point on a dresser while a large tawny Owl had landed near Hermione.

 

“It's our OWLs, they're here!” The large tawny Owl dropped it's letter and left while the small brown Owl just stared at Harry.

 

“Give me my OWLs.” The Owl hooted then dropped the letter before flying off. “Finally, crazy thing.” Harry picked up his letter and opened it quickly. “Well Hermione, are you going to open yours?” Hermione stood there with the letter in her hand while biting her bottom lip.

 

“What if I've failed everything? What if it's just a letter telling me to never come back and they are coming to snap my wand, I can't open it, if I don't then they can't fail me.” Harry was almost ready to laugh, the smartest witch he knew was afraid of failing.

 

“Hermione you didn't and you know it, just open it!” Harry looked at his letter.

 

Dear Student;

 

Congratulations on your OWLs, the Ministry would like to let you know that you, student Harry Potter have passed at least five classes, the required amount to make it into the sixth year of Hogwarts.

 

Grades are as listed

 

Passing Not Passing

Outstanding (O) Poor(P)

Exceeds Expectations(E) Dreadful(D)

Acceptable(A) Troll(T)

 

Astronomy A

Care of Magical Creatures O

Charms E

Defense Against the Dark Arts O

Divination O

Herbology E

History of Magic A

Potions O

Transfiguration O

 

 

Harry had done as well as he had expected, the Divination Examiner all but handed him an Outstanding, and was grateful for the extra help he had gotten from Hermione on History of Magic. “See Hermione? Look at how well I did and I am no where near as smart as you.” Harry showed Hermione his letter trying to get her to open hers.

 

“Alright I will, please don't be bad, please.” Hermione opened her letter carefully getting her OWLs out.

 

“Well?” Hermione held it close so only she could see it.

 

“I only got 12 OWLs.”

 

“How many classes did you have?”

 

“12.” Hermione started jumping up and down hugging Harry as she screamed in a high pitched girl's voice. “Yes yes yes!”

 

“Hermione you're hurting me.” Harry's right ear was ringing from her screaming.

 

“I'm sorry Harry, you did well to, got an OWL in every subject, but you could have done better though in History of Magic and Astronomy.”

 

“Hermione like it matters? I'm not taking those next year, and I'm sure as hell not taking Divination, I probably won't take Herbology either. I only need to take five classes Hermione although I bet you won't let that hold you back will you?”

 

“Well I probably won't take History of Magic or Herbology either, along with astronomy.”

 

“Aw you will only be taking nine classes how un-Hermione of you.”

 

“Well I have an idea of what I want to do and there is a class that I don't need for it but it would hurt someone if I didn't take it.”

 

“What?”

 

“Care of Magical Creatures. I don't really need it, and it would lighten my load next year and my seventh year, but I don't want to hurt Hagrid.”

 

“Come on Hermione I'm sure he will understand, you have other classes you want to take and remember your third year when you tried to take every class? Hagrid probably won't talk to you for a week or two but he will forgive you.” Harry doubted Hagrid would hold it against Hermione, she was the smartest witch but even she had her limits.

 

“I hope so Harry, well, at least we know what we need to get in Diagon Alley later.”

 

“What about Monica? Did she get her Owl?” Hermione said she only saw two of them, maybe Monica didn't get her Owls.

 

“I don't know, let me check, stay here Harry.” Harry didn't need to be told twice, Monica might now let Harry talk to her from the hallway but he hadn't dared stepped into her room. Harry waited a few minutes for Hermione to come back, when she did she was smiling.

 

“I'm guessing she got her OWLs.” Hermione nodded.

 

“She got eight, she failed History of Magic but everything else was O and E. I asked her if you could congratulate her and well, she didn't say yes but she didn't say no, she's really been making progress.” Yeah, progress, she had left her room several times so far to go to Hermione's room.

 

“Well are you buying what she needs?” Hermione nodded. “Well I guess we need to get things together, uh, I need to get my parents things so when we go to Gringotts I can put them in a safe place, not that I need to get money, have plenty of it from what I took out last year and what I got from Salazar.”

 

“I need to transfer some money, don't have a lot though, my parents have been on the run for awhile and we can't get to a Muggle bank to get money out.” Harry hadn't thought of that, Hermione relied on her parents for Muggle money to transfer at Gringotts.

 

“Hermione I have plenty of money, Sirius left me, well, a lot. We could make you an account, I could transfer some of Sirius's money to it so you don't have to worry.” Harry thought it was a good idea, he had been waiting to ask Hermione about it, now he just had a good excuse to do it.

 

“I don't want your money Harry, I am already leeching off of you as it is.”

 

“But it's not my money, it is Sirius's, and I can't spend it all, think of it as an early birthday gift.”

 

“Didn't you already get me that?”

 

“Alright it's an early birthday gift for next year.”

 

“Fine, but not to much, enough to get me through school then I can get a job and make my own money, and by then Voldemort will hopefully have fallen so my parents can start working again, then I can pay you back.” Harry wasn't going to give her a loan, Harry didn't consider it his money anyways, it was Sirius's, but if it got Hermione to accept the gift he would agree.

 

“It's a deal.” Harry stuck his hand out and Hermione jokingly shook it. “So when are we going?”

 

“I don't know, I'm sure Remus and Tonks and whoever else is coming with us already know we got our OWLs.”

 

“Well what do we do? I don't really need anything but get my parents things together so I can put them in my vault.”

 

“Well you know what classes you are taking right?” Harry nodded. “Well that means…” Hermione went over what he would need stunning Harry.

 

“How do you know that?” Harry should have known the answer it was Hermione.

 

“I read it in a book.” Crack

 

“Mister Albus Dumbledore Sir says your escorts will arrive in five minutes so get your things prepared that you need Mister Harry Potter Sir and Misses Hermione Granger Ma'am.” Crack

 

“Well I guess I'll get my parent's things.” Harry went to his room and grabbed the box he had been keeping his parents things in. He kept it next to his bed every night; he could almost feel them next to him, looking over him, keeping him safe. He only had one dream the whole time and it wasn't a bad one, but now he was going to keep his parents safe. Harry went to the bottom of the stairs waiting for Hermione to come down. Before she did there was a knock at the door, Harry hated doing this but he had to do it. “Password?”

 

“Redro fo eht xineohp.” It was an Order member. Harry opened the door and let Tonks, Remus, Dawdles, and Mad Eye Moody. “We needed extra protection; we already have members set up in Diagon Alley scouting the area for Death Eater scum.” Moody's magical eye swirled around checking every spot of the house. “Where are the girls? There is supposed to be you, the brunette, and the blond living here.”

 

“Uh Hermione went to get something and Monica isn't coming with us.”

 

“She still hasn't left her room? Poor thing lost her family like that.” A bright red haired Tonks had tried to talk to Monica but Monica wouldn't talk back.

 

“Well Hermione has gotten Monica to leave her room a few times and she stopped throwing things at me or cursing me whenever she sees me.” Harry heard footsteps behind him coming down the stairs.

 

“I'm ready.” Hermione and Harry went outside with the group of Order members to a car.

 

“It's a special car, Order modified from the Ministry. We could have gotten one from the Ministry legally but we can't be sure of who is a spy for You-Know-Who and who isn't so we forged the papers.” Tonks seemed proud of herself for hoodwinking the Ministry.

 

“Get in before you're spotted.” Moody nearly shoved Harry into the car's closed door.

 

“Calm down Moody we already cast several charms and spells to make sure they aren't spotted.”

 

“Charms can be broken, spells beaten, in my line of work you have to be on guard for everything.” It may have seemed like paranoia had taken a hold of Moody's mind to the others but it had kept him alive through two Dark Wizard reigns and would probably get him through this one.

 

The car took off for Diagon Alley doing the same thing the car Harry and Hermione had ridden in to Diagon Alley the year before. The group went into the bar seeing it was mostly empty, probably preplanned by the Order Harry thought, and waited for Tonks to open the door. The door opened and the group walked into a Diagon Alley Harry hadn't seen, this one was crowded, it wasn't colorful, it was dark and deserted. The Order may have been able to keep people out of the bar but all of Diagon Alley? “What happened?” Harry kept looking around at the deserted Diagon Alley.

 

“You-Know-Who is what happened, people are scared to come out. Most businesses have started a mail service just so they can stay in business. We could have used theirs but Owls can be intercepted, we can't have them flying to and from the Order's Headquarters, and who knows who would get our things, Death Eaters are everywhere.” Moody still had his magical eye going looking at and through everything. Harry saw Remus lean over to Moody and whisper something. Moody turned his eye towards Hermione. “She's clean.” Remus asked Moody to use his eye to check Hermione for the Dark Mark!

 

“Remus don't do that again if you know what's good for you.” Harry stepped in between Hermione and Moody not telling Hermione why. They got to Gringotts quickly and went inside. The Goblins seemed bored, Harry found one who seemed awake. “I need to make a new account and transfer some money to it.” The Goblin pointed towards a door that read “Accounts Management.” “Uh Remus, Tonks, I need to make a new account and transfer some money to it, do I need all of you to come?”

 

“Well this is a secure place, would have to be mad to try and mess with Goblins just take one of them.” Moody had spoken his eye spinning around in its socket.

 

“Hermione needs to come to, it's her account.”

 

“Harry you shouldn't be giving your money away like that especially to people we can't trust.” Remus was looking to make Harry mad, whether or not he meant to didn't matter.

 

“Well I guess I won't be making Ron an account but I will be making Hermione an account, and it isn't my money it is Sirius's.” Harry may have accepted the house but he wasn't going to accept the money, he had more then enough and needed something to spend this new gold on. Harry, Hermione, and Tonks went to the Account Management office and created a new account.

 

“How much do you want to transfer?” The old man behind the desk asked.

 

“20,000 should do for now.” Harry smiled at Hermione.

 

“I don't need that much Harry; a thousand would probably do it.”

 

“Yes but I am giving you 20,000 you shouldn't worry you said you would pay me back and this will make it easier since you will build more interest this way. You spend a thousand in two years but the interest will make more then that so you won't owe me any money.” Harry had thought this through, after reading a few books to see if they had interest on wizard accounts.

 

“Alright both parties need to sign here, here, and here.” Harry signed in the places required and after a few seconds Hermione did to. “The money will be transferred immediately; you may conduct any other business you have today.” The three left and joined up with the rest of the group.

 

“Ok so go to my vault to put my parent's things in it then Hermione's, right?” Remus nodded. “Well, are we all going?” Remus shook his head.

 

“Tonks will accompany you to your vaults.” Harry shrugged his shoulders and walked over with Hermione and Tonks to the entrance to the vaults.

 

“We need to make a deposit at one vault and make a withdraw from a second one, here are the numbers.” Tonks gave something to the Goblin at the door. They then followed the Goblin to the mine cart ready for the ride. After a couple minutes they arrived at Harry's vault only feeling a little green. Harry got his bottomless pouch out and took the box his Parent's things were in. The vault door opened and Harry was nearly blinded by the sight, mounds of gold, all gold, easily a million if not more Galleons piled up to the ceiling.

 

“My God Harry, it's, it's...” Tonks was lost for words; she had never seen so much gold in her life either.

 

“I can't believe him, what am I suppose to do with all of this? Didn't he give you and Remus and Dumbledore some gold?” This couldn't be what Sirius had left, the bank must have made a mistake, they forgot to give the others the gold they had inherited, but even if they had the gold removed would still only be a small dent in this mountain of gold.

 

“He did, I already got my inheritance, and Remus got his, maybe Dumbledore didn't.” Harry took the box of his parent's things and set it on the floor.

 

“I would give this all away for my parents, for Sirius, for everyone killed because of me.” Harry looked at the box of his parent's things; in the middle of all this gold it looked like garbage but to Harry it was the most valuable thing in the vault. Harry could still swear he felt his parents when he touched the box, he wiped a tear from his eye wanting to keep his parents safe but not wanting to leave them.

 

“Come on Harry, we need to get going.” Tonks put a hand on Harry's shoulder. “Don't blame yourself, Sirius wouldn't want you to, and even though I never met them I know your parents wouldn't want you to either.” Harry followed Tonks back to the mine car and got in. Next was to Hermione's new account which took close to a minute to get to. When the vault door opened Hermione started yelling at Harry again for giving her so much gold.

 

“I didn't give it to you it was a loan that will pay itself off through interest.” Harry could see three Sickles and five knuts, interest was already building.

 

“Sneaky, tricky, to smart for your own good sometimes.” Hermione went in with her bottomless pouch and filled it with Galleons. “That's it, time to head back.”

 

“What about Monica?”

 

“I took money out of my account since you gave me so much.”

 

“You mean I loaned you.” Harry stuck his tongue out at her. The mine car took off at an amazing speed twisting and turning and Harry swore twice going upside down before they got back to the surface.

 

“Oh that always makes me woozy.” Tonks got off looking green and Harry knew it wasn't her doing it.

 

“Took you long enough, we have the next place scouted, be ready to move out.” Moody had taken lead of the group and led them to the book store. Getting there things they went to the pet store to get food and treats for their familiars before heading to the robe store. Harry needed some new ones since he had grown nearly two inches since the last time he bought robes. They entered the store when Moody started yelling.

 

“Get out! They are here, they took our forwards out!” Moody had his wand out and started cursing everything in the room. At first Harry thought Moody was being himself when he felt someone yank on his collar. Harry and Hermione had been pulled out of the store but not by Order members.

 

“We got em! Too easy…” Three large men had their wands pointed at the two teens, there was no escape.

 

“Please leave her alone, just kill me and leave.” The man in the middle laughed.

 

“We aren't going to kill you; the Dark Lord has a much better idea.” The man took something out of his pocket. “Catch.” He threw it at Harry whose Seeker instincts kicked in before Harry could think about what he was doing.

 

“Harry don't touch that!” Remus had gotten out of the store once he realized the two weren't in it anymore leaving Moody, Tonks, and Dawdles fighting the Death Eaters inside. To late, Harry already had it in his hand but nothing happened.

 

“Well it's not a Portkey Harry.” Hermione reached out to get it out of Harry's hands but when she touched it something happened, the world started to spin but unlike a Portkey there was no hook behind the belly button feeling but a different one that took Hermione only seconds to recognize. “It's a time turner!” It was too late; the two had already been taken by the time turner and had no choice but to wait for it to stop.