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Harry woke up and got ready for his day at Hogwarts. He has time to pass the time and so he looks through his room and starts to play around with the books on the shelf.

The particular book he grabbed started to attack him, he finally put it away before abruptly leaving the room just to hear the voice of his best friend Ron Weasley screaming at his other best friend Hermione Granger.

"I'm warning you Hermione! You keep that beast away from scanners or I'll turn it into a tea cozy!" He threatens whilst holding his rat close to his chest.

Whilst Harry starts to run down the stairs towards his best friends they don't seem to notice and carry on arguing. "It's a cat Ronald, what do you expect?" She wonders with a stern voice, "It's in his nature!" She expresses.

"A cat? That's what they told you?" He questions sneering at the cat. "Looks more like a pig with hair if you ask me." The ginger boy retorts a disgusted look on his face as he eyes the girls pet.

"That's rich, coming from the owner of that smelly old shoe brush!" She yells at the boy growing frustrated with him. "Crookshanks, just ignore the mean little boy." She says with a soft voice to the cat.

Harry watches them trying not to laugh finding humour in the fact he is finding them arguing — yet again.

Ron rolls his eyes at the scene before looking up to see his favourite glasses wearing boy "Harry!" He says with surprise causing the girl in front of him to turn around and seeing her best friend "Harry!!" She repeats the boys words.

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Mr weasley takes Harry down the corridor for a private conversation, whilst doing so passes by a wanted poster for the name miralette crouch.

"Harry, there are some within the Ministry who would strongly discourage me from divulging what I'm about to reveal to you." He confesses making the boy confused where this conversation is going, "But I think that you need to know the facts." He takes the boy to the wanted sign for miralette crouch and pauses, "you are in danger. Grave danger"

"Has this anything to do with Miralette Crouch, sir?" Harry questions.

"What do you know about Miralette Crouch, Harry?" He asks needing to know what the young boy knows.

"Only that she's escaped from Azkaban." He answers

"Do you know why?" He retorts gaining no answer so he responds. "Thirteen years ago when you stopped—"

"Voldemort."

"—don't say his name."

"Sorry."

"When you stopped You-Know-Who.. Crouch She lost everything." He continues and carries on walking round the pillars, "But to this day, she still remains a faithful servant and in her mind.." he pauses their walk to a stop and faces the boy, "you are the only thing that stands in the way of you-know-who returning to power," he explains moving their walk again so no one hears the conversation, "and that is why she has escaped from Azkaban, to find you—" he finishes.

"— and kill me..?" Harry finishes realising what his best friends father is trying to say.

Arthur looks down at the boy his dad face turning stern, "Harry, swear to me that whatever you might hear, you won't go looking for Crouch."

"Mr weasley, why would I go looking for someone who wants to kill me..?" He wonders, slight hurt in his voice that the man would think so low of the boy.

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"I didn't mean to blow her up, I just lost control!" He explains with an awkward expression whilst trying to look for an empty compartment.

"Brilliant!" Ron says laughing at the situation whilst Hermione doesn't find it funny at all.

"Honestly, it's not funny. Harry was lucky not to be expelled!" He reminds the ginger boy.

"I think I was lucky enough not to be arrested actually." Harry retorts with an eyeroll.

"I still think it was brilliant" he expresses with a big smile on his face.

"Come on, everywhere else is full" Hermione says leading the boys into a carriage that only has a sleeping person in it.

"Who do you think that is?" Ron wonders whilst sitting across the stranger.

"Professor R.J. Lupin" Hermione answers easily making harry shocked.

"Do you know everything?" He asks him before turning to Harry, "How is it she knows everything!"

"It's on his suitcase Ronald." She says exasperated leaving him dumbfounded.

"Lupin. I think I know him, or well his last name. Sirius has told me about one of his and my dad's bestfriends being someone called remus lupin, I've even wrote to him a few times but I've never met him in person." Harry says with a smile, excited to meet another member of his family, savouring the warm feeling of maternity.

"Hmm maybe." Ron wonders, looking at the man in an inspecting him sort of way.

"Anyway, do you think he's really asleep?" Harry wonders switching the topic.

"Seems to be. Why?" Hermione answers.

"I gotta tell you something." He says and shuts the carriage door shut.

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"Let me get this straight." Ron starts, "Miralette Crouch has escaped from Azkaban to come after you?" He repeats what harry had told them in simpler terms.

"Yeah." Harry responds, wondering to himself why he can't just have one good year.

"But they'll catch Crouch, won't they?" Hermione wonders, causing the two boys to look at her, "I mean everyone's looking for her."

"Sure! Except no one's ever broken out of Azkaban before and she's a murderous raving lunatic." Ron says bluntly gaining a sarcastic smile from Harry.

Before He could reply the carriage door opens and shoes the three boys harry did not have the time for.

"Well, look who it is," Malfoy drawled. "Potty and Weasel."

Behind him, Crabbe and Goyal laughed making the golden trio to scowl at the sight of Malfoy and his goons.

Ron jumped at his feet, launching croockshanks.

"Hey Malfoy what do you want?" Harry started in the same tone Draco did, "Is it just to come at talk to me? I mean I know I'm amazing — especially to look at — but this is a bit obsessive don't you think?"

"Why you specky little gi—" Malfoy began whilst drawing his wand to attempt to hex Harry but he was quicker and used expelliarmus on him, Malfoys wand falling into Harry's hand.

Harry looks smug, Draco looks frustrated, and the other four look shocked.

Professor Lupin gave out a snort.

"Who's that?" Malfoy asked, finally aware of the fifth person, trying to also avoid his embarrassment of the situation.

"Professor Lupin." Hermione answers with a dry tone.

Not wanting to get detention he snatches his wand out of Potters hand before quickly storming out, slamming the door shut.

"Well that was fun." Harry announced causing the girl to roll her eyes and Ron to laugh agreeing with the boy.

Ron and Hermione were in a heated argument yet again about their pets after she had shouted at ron for throwing Croockshanks whilst Harry had looked outside the window in a bored manor already used to them arguing when suddenly the train came to a stop.

"We must be nearly there," said Ron, leaning past Professor Lupin to look out the window for it to start fogging up making the room colder.

"Great," Ron stands up stretching his legs before putting his hands on his waist, "I'm starving, I want to get to the feast." Ron starts to complain.

"We can't be there yet." Hermione mumbles, but loud enough for the boys to hear — whilst checking her watch.

"So why are we stopping?" Ron questions looking from Hermione to Harry after getting no answer from the girl.

Harry who was closest to the door, stood up and opened the door and looked out into the hallway. Along the corridor was heads sticking out the carriage doors with the same confused expression as harry did. The train came to a jolt, causing the boy to fall back into the chair accidentally falling onto the sleeping man causing him to wake up — not that anyone noticed — then without warning it all fell into darkness.

"What's going on?" Said Ron's voice from behind harry as the brunette boy sat up trying to see what's happening.

"Ouch!" Gasped Hermione, "Ronald that was my foot!"

Harry slowly sat back down to his chair trying to stay as calm as possible.

"D'you think we have broken down?" Harry asked gaining no answer for him to fall back into his seat as he rolls his eyes.

"There's something moving out there," Ron mutters nodding to the window, "I think people are coming abrord."

The compartment suddenly opened and someone fell painfully over Harry's legs causing him to groan.

"Sorry— d'you know what's going on? — Ouch — Sorry—"

"Hey Neville." Harry greets, feeling around in the darkness before softly pulling the boy backwards trying to sit him down by his cloak.

"Harry? Is that you? What's happening?"

"No idea— sit down nev—"

There was a loud hissing and a yelp of pain; Neville accidentally tried sitting on Crookshanks.

"I'm going to go and ask the driver what's going on," Hermiones voice spoke. Harry felt the girl pass by him, hearing the door slide open, and then a thud and two hisses of pain.

"Who's that?"

"Who's that?"

"Ginny?"

"Hermione?"

"Donkey?" he mutters mostly to himself with a small snigger trying to be involved and make light of the situation. No one hears him though.

"What are you doing?"

"I was looking for Ron—"

"Come in and sit down—"

"Not here!" Said Harry hurriedly. Ron stifled a laugh. "I'm here!"

"Ouch!" Said Neville.

"Quiet!" Said a hoarse voice. Professor Lupin had woken up and taken note of the situation. None of them spoke and just looked down to the floor.

There was a soft, crackling noise, and a shivering light filled the compartment. Professor Lupin appeared to be holding a handful of flames. They illuminated his tired and pale face whilst his eyes were alert and weary.

As Remus Lupin looks around the compartment he comes face to face with James Potter. His heart pulls and his heart rate rises. His best friend. His James. Alive. He is sat right in front of him in their everyday compartment like normal. That was until he looked at the boys eyes. They were Lily's. His mood dimmed slightly. He realised it was not his best friend but his best friends son. His nephew. The boy who lived. Harry Potter.

"Stay where you are," Remus commands in the same hoarse voice after looking away the pain too much to bare. He slowly moved past the children and opened the door.

Standing in the doorway, illuminated by Lupins flame quivering in his hand, was a cloaked figure. It was as tall as the ceiling and its hands were curling around the side of the door. It was looking around before eyeing harry as if it sensed the boy and came infront of him as if it was trying to suck his soul out — or something.

Harry swear he felt his heart stop for a second as his breathing intensifies, he starts to feel faint. As he feels more and more dizzy he hears a loud scream from a woman coming from all around him, like he can't pinpoint were exactly it's coming from or why he remembers that exact scream from a memory long before. After that he slowly drops to the floor with a thud.

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Harry wakes up to the voice of his best friend Hermione shaking him awake.

"I'll slap him awake if he doesn't get up quickly." Ron mutters using his worries over the boy and turning it into anger.

He raises his hand before Hermione grabs his wrist and pulls it down — giving him a stern look.

"He's awake see," she says rolling her eyes before looking down at the faint boy with concern, "Harry, Hey, Harry are you alright?" She says helping the boy up with care ignoring the way he tries to get up by himself.

"Yeah," harry mutters still trying to get ahold of himself. He looks towards the door to see the ghoulish creature had vanished. "What happened? Where's that — that thing?" He wonders taking his glasses out from Hermiones hand softly before placing them on his face and looking around for an answer.

"Here," Remus gives the boy a large piece of chocolate, "eat this it'll help." Harry took the chocolate but didn't eat it just yet, still confused to what had just happened to him. "It's alright it's chocolate." He says nodding at the piece in the boys hand before looking up at him with a look the young boy can't predict.

"What was that thing?" He repeats his question from earlier that hadn't been answered.

"It was a dementor. One of the guards of Azkaban. It's gone now." He answers with a warm smile to the boy who is pretty much doppelgänger to his dead bestfriend — that he missed deerly.

"It was searching the train for," he pauses for a moment before saying the name whilst looking down avoiding eye constant with the boy who owned the same eyes as the ginger haired girl who could flash them and Remus could do anything she asked, "miralette crouch." He finishes, smiles at the boy again, the boy smiling back slightly.

"If you'll excuse me I need to have a little word with the driver," The scared-faced man says to the boy, nodding at the silent duo beside him before standing to leave the room. Before doing that he turns back around and looks at the boy again "—eat you'll feel better!" He exclaims brightly flashing a heartwarming smile before leaving the carriage allowing the trio to talk amongst themselves.

"What happened to me?" Harry wonders whilst avoiding eye contact worried what everyone saw before they left.

"Well— you sort of went rigid." Ron answers watching as harry nibbles on the chocolate he was given.

"We thought you were having a fit or something." He mutters with a dramatic expression making the girl beside him roll her eyes.

Harry stopped eating and looked at the boy, "and did either of you.. you know — pass out?"

"No, I felt weird though — like I'd never be cheerful again." He replies.

"But someone was screaming?" Harry says looking between the two of them before carrying on, "A woman." causing the duo to share a look of bewilderment before Hermione answered.

"There was no one screaming harry.." the girl replies looking at him worryingly.

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