My Protector | A Harry Potter love story

chapter 10

I wake up back at Hogwarts in the infirmary next to Harry who is still out cold. I look over and see Hermione next to Ron's cot talking to him. "Hermione, Ron, are you all okay?" I groan out at them as I try to sit back up. "Yes. We're fine. How are you feeling Arabella? You, Harry, and Sirius were all out cold when we found you." "Someone saved us. There were dementors all around us but someone from across the lake saved us." Hermione hands me a piece of chocolate as I tell the story. I get up from the bed and walk over to Harry's and stroke his hair. "Mione, it was so terrifying. We almost died. Seeing Harry's and Sirius's soul get sucked out of them and not being able to do anything." 

Hermione is about to respond but we both see Harry start to open his eyes. "Harry?" we ask him. "I saw my dad." We both gasp in shock and Hermione runs over to his bed and we learn over him. "What?" She speaks. "He sent the dementors away. I saw him across the lake." "Listen, Harry, they've captured Sirius. Any minute, the dementors are going to perform the kiss." He scrambles out of bed in a hurry, "You mean they're gonna kill him?!" "No, it's worse. Much worse. They're going to suck out his soul." As Hermione finishes, we hear the doors to the infirmary open wide and we see Dumbledore storming inside. 

"Headmaster, you've got to stop them! They've got the wrong man!" I say as I go up to him. "it's true, sir. Sirius is innocent!" "It's Scabbers who did it." Ron speaks up. "Scabbers?" Dumbledore asked confused. "He's my rat, sir. He's not really a rat. Uh, well, he was a rat. He was my brother Percy's rat. But then they gave him an owl, then I got-" "Point is, we know the truth. Please believe us." "I do, Miss Granger. But I'm sorry to say, the word of four 13-year-old wizards will convince few others." Dumbledore walks over to Ron's bed as he continues to talk, "A child's voice, however honest and true, is meaningless-" He pats down on Ron's leg which makes Ron cry out in a whimper of pain. "To those who have forgotten how to listen." 

The clock chimes marking the new hour of the night. "Mysterious thing, time. Powerful. And when meddled with... dangerous. Sirius Black is in the topmost cell of the Dark Tower. You know the laws, Miss Malfoy and Miss Granger. You must not be seen. And you would do well, I feel, to return before this last chime. If not, the consequences are too ghastly to discuss. If you succeed tonight, more than one innocent may be spared. Three turns should do it, I think. You might need to entangle your necklaces together as I don't think three people can fit inside."

As Dumbledore leaves the infirmary, he strops the doors from shutting completely. "Oh, by the way... when in doubt, I find retracing my steps to be a wise place to begin. Good luck." He finishes before finally shutting the doors completely leaving us alone. Hermione and I take our necklaces and I clasp one end of my necklace onto hers to make a bigger chain. 

"What the bloody hell was that all about?" Ron asks bewildered. "Sorry, Ron, but seeing as you can't walk..." Hermione tells him as she loops the necklace over my head and Harry's. Hermione starts to turn the time turner on the necklace and Harry tries to touch it but I smack his hand away from it. "don't touch it, imbecile." After the three turns, the scenery around us changes into the time of 7:30. I take the necklace off of Harry's neck and clasp my necklace back together again. "What just happened? Where's Ron?" "7:30. Where were we at 7:30?" Hermione asks us. "I don't know. Going to Hagrid's?" Harry  thinks. I grab onto Harry's arm "Come on! And we can't be seen!" I remind him as we all make our way back to the hill where we first encountered Draco. "Guys! Wil you please tell me what it is we're doing?" He begs us as we make it to our destination. We all stop at the archway and watch our past selves encounter Draco again. "Ah! Come to see the show?" Past Draco teases at our past selves. "You! You foul, loathsome, evil little cockroach!" Past Hermione screams out.

"But... that's us." Harry says confused. "Hermione, no!" Past Ron tries to tell past Hermione. "This is not normal." I push Harry and Hermione back further into the archway. Hermione quickly takes out her time-tuner. "This is a Time-Turner, Harry. McGonagall gave one to Arabella and one to me at the beginning of the term. This is how we've been making it to our lessons all year." "You mean, we've gone back in time?" "Good job Harry, you've caught up with the rest of the class." I tease at him. "Yes. Dumbledore obviously wanted us to return to this moment. Clearly something happened he wants us to change." I peek my head out of the archway and watch Hermione's past self-punch Draco right in the face again. "Good punch, babes." I compliment her. "Thanks." She says.