Born From Madness (Harry Potter Fanfic)

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Harry Potter rushed over towards where he knew Sirius, Hermione and himself would be. He stood on the edge of the forest where he watched as dementors began soaring towards the three of them. At any moment, he would see who had produced the patronus charm that saved them. He waited as he started to watch Hermione was fighting the dementors with her Patronus and Harry was trying to attempt his. 

"Come on!" He muttered, staring about, "Where are you? Dad, come on--" 

but no one came, as the circle of dementors began to circle around them, closing in on them... then it hit him. He understood. It hadn't been his father he had seen... he saw himself! 

Harry flung himself from the trees as he held out his wand and screamed at the top of his lungs, "EXPECTO PATRONUM!" he yelled. Out from the end of his wand burst, not a shapeless cloud of mist but a blinding, dazzling animal that galloping silently away from him then across the surface of the lake and charged the dementors. Soon the dementors were falling back, scattering and retreating far back into the darkness before they vanished. The Patronus turned its head at Harry and he saw it was a Stag. Soon it came galloped back towards him as it bowed its head at him. It then hit him...

"Prongs?" he whispered. Harry held out his hand to pet it but it vanished. His thoughts raced in his mind but he hadn't time to process them when he heard something like a struggle then a thud like a case being closed. Harry peered over his shoulder as he saw it was Barty Crouch Jr. again with that same case as before. Harry wanted to rush after him, to at least stop him from whatever he was planning but just as fast as Harry spotted him, Barty vanished before his eyes. 

"What did you do?" Harry turned around quickly to see Hermione dashing towards him while dragging Buckbeak behind her. 

"I just saved our lives... get behind here-- I'll explain..." he said before telling her about how it was him that had conjured the Patronus, but he didn't stopped there. He mentioned that just a minute ago, he had found Barty Crouch Jr. kneeled down with that same case Harry saw him with at Gryffindor Tower. 

"What would he be doing-- Look! It's Snape," Hermione mumbled. They proceed to watched as Snape conjured stretchers for the three of them then carried them up towards the castle. 

"It's nearly time, we got forty-five minutes until Dumbeldore locks the doors. We've got to rescue Sirius and get back before someone realizes we're missing..." Hermione advised to them. They waited till they found Macnair existing the castle. 

"This is it," Harry mumbled to her. They quickly climbed up Buckbeak's back before soaring up into the air near the castle. They flew around till they found the floor then proceeded to count windows till--

"He's there!" Harry shouted just as Black shot his head up. Sirius leapt from his chair as he hurried towards the window. But it was locked. Quickly, Hermione performed the unlocking charm, causing the window to opened. Sirius didn't waste a moment as he climbed out of the window and onto Buckbeak. 

"Okay, Buckbeak, let's go." 

They reached up towards the West Tower before settling down. Hermione and Harry slid off Buckbeak as they panted. 

"Sirius, you'd better go, quick!" Harry pleaded with him. 

"What happened to Ron?" He asked. 

"He's going to be okay, he's still out of it, but Madam Pomfrey will take care of him." 

"How can I ever thank--" 

"GO!" Hermione and Harry shouted together. 

"We'll see each other again," He said while turning Buckbeak towards the open sky, "You are truly your father's son, Harry... and you Hermione are in fact, the brightest witch of her age." 

And with those final words, Sirius squeezed Buckbeak's sides with his heels and took off into the air... becoming smaller and smaller until they were finally gone. 

Hermione and Harry didn't waste another moment as they rushed down the stairs towards the Hospital Wing. They finally reached the door as Dumbledore was closing it. 

"Well?" 

"We did it!" Harry said breathlessly. 

"Well done, now go! Get inside," He ordered them. Quickly they slipped inside as Dumbledore locked them in. They crept into their beds as Hermione slipped the Timer Turner underneath her shirt just as Madam Pomfrey came strolling back from her office. 

"Did I hear the Headmaster leave? Am I allowed to look after my patients now?" she asked, clearly upset, before going over to each of them and making sure they ate. While eating, there was a distant roar of fury echoing from above them then voices as they drew near. 

"He must have Disapparated, Severus. We should have left somebody in the room..." Fudge spoke. 

"He didn't disapparate! You can't apparate or disapparate inside this castle! Clearly, this has something to do with Potter!" Snape roared. 

"Severus-- be reasonable-- Harry has been locked up---" 

BAM! The doors flung opened as Fudge (upset), Snape (downright angry), and Dumbledore (who seemed to be enjoying himself) came storming into the hospital wing. 

"Out with it Potter! What did you do?" Snape bellowed. 

"Snape be reasonable! The door's been locked--

"They helped him escape, I know!" Snape howled, pointing at both Hermione and Harry. 

"Calm down, man! You're speaking nonsense!" Fudge barked. 

"Severus, think about what you are saying. This door has been locked since I left the ward, ten minutes ago. Madam Pomfrey have these students left theri beds?" 

"Of course not!" Madam Pomfrey said, "I would have heard them leave!" 

"There you go-- unless you are suggesting that Harry and Hermione were in two places at once, I'm afraid I don't see any point troubling them further." 

Snape soon turned and walked out of the hospital wing with Fudge, and Dumbledore following as Fudge was saying how unbalanced Snape was and how the Daily Prophet was going to have a field day about all this then mentioning about taking the dementors back to Azkaban and replacing them with Dragons. 

"I'm sure Hagrid would love that." Dumbledore said, giving them a quick grin before vanishing down the corridor. 

The three of them were patrolling the grounds as Hermione was informing Ron on what had happened last night until they stopped when Hagrid came around, who was cheering about Buckbeak escaping. Harry and Hermione kept it cool about what really happened last night with Buckbeak until it came to the point where Hagrid inform them about a horrible matter. Snape had inform all the Slytherins that morning about Professor Lupin was a werewolf and the whole school knew about it... and Lupin was leaving them.