Chapter 4: Terror at Hogwarts

It was at the early sunrise, when Silvanus woke up, the sun had just risen giving tinge bit of warmth during such cold times. It had been snowing yesterday, he woke up and stretched a little, looking out of the living room window he noticed that harry was removing snow from the front yard, Silvanus yawned, brushed his teeth, and went out to help Harry, when he reached him, he was very quite and did not notice Silvanus standing next to him, Silvanus was afraid for he thought harry might back off out of the mission, he tried to start a conversation by saying , " So.... it snowed yesterday, no wonder I slept like a dog", Harry's mouth curved in a little smile, he looked at Silvanus and said, " How is James now... in your world?", Silvanus could see that Harry wanted the truth, his eyes were now locked with Silvanus, feeling caught Silvanus said, " H-He.. is not doing better.... When father got to know about what Alexis was upto, he was the first to go and talk to her....but she refused and tortured him and her father albus, luckily a ministry officer was called by Lena.. albus's wife and they rescued both of them but Alexis escaped, both of their memories are affected severely, and they have major wounds which are not likely to heal" while saying this Silvanus broke down to tears, Harry moved closer to him and gave him a hug, Silvanus was feeling awfully relaxed as if a very heavy load had been lifted.

Ginny and James had now been awake, everyone was having breakfast, a door bell rang shrilly, Ginny got up a went to open the door, Ron and Hermione were standing outside, Ron entered inside and quickly came and sat near the table and started making a cheese sandwich, however Hermione was talking something with Ginny near the door, both of them were smiling of some reason. After a few minutes they sat down to have some bread when an owl came and perched itself onto harry's shoulder, Silvanus smiled at the sight of it but other round the table were not so happy looking at it, Harry lifted the owl and untied the note tied to its leg and opened it, he read it for a few minutes and with sorrow and terror in his eyes he place the letter at the centre of the table, Silvanus looked at it and it read,

Minevra McGonagall,

There has been an attack in the school, come quickly, media and parents are not informed. You must come quickly it is not safe here, children and teachers are traumatised, please come quickly.

Silvanus lifted his head after reading the letter, and saw Harry, Hermione and Ron were scurrying to the door, Ginny said to harry, " Be safe, dear and come back all of you, I don't want to see it anymore", bringing herself to tears, harry walked upto her and said, " We will never leave you, even if we were dying, I'll be safe, and you try be brave, and what has ever happened to us when we were all together, see you soon" and all of them started to walk, Ron said, " Hang on we can't drive till there!!", " Ofcourse we can't, we have to fly" said harry, Ron and Hermione's eyes widened in shock, Silvanus was dumbstruck by listening to it, it had been written by a famous photographer colin creevy that Harry and Ron once arrived in the school with a flying car, before they could decide anything else, they were already in the car, the car was the world famous Volkswagen Bentley, as Silvanus saw, He was good with cars.

Harry gave the car a start, it cackled but went down, after two ignitions, the engine sputtered and the car jerked forward and the ancient car started, after giving enough gas to the car Harry pushed a black button next to the radio, Hermione and Silvanus were sitting at the back and Ron and harry in the front, " Last time we did this, things turned out to be pretty dreadful" said Ron, "Don't worry, it's safe", the car was now invisible to anything.

"Couldn't you find any other transportation?", asked Hermione,  "We can't take floo powder, because if anything happens at Hogwarts, the castle is immediately closed to any transportation, and we can't apparate within Hogwarts" said harry, Silvanus had now understood that Hermione suffered from Acrophobia, the fear of heights, " Just, don't look down, think of yourself as floating in fast water" said Silvanus, Harry raised his eyebrow, " My father told me that" said Silvanus slightly blushing,  "Thank you" said Hermione without looking at him.

After an hour of flying they reached Hogwarts, and before they could deal with the main matter inside, they had a new problem in front of them, landing.

"How do I land, Ron you drove this before do something" said harry as they were speeding to the ground, "last time I did it my wand broke and we were almost killed by a tree!!!" said ron.

" OH...GREAT SIMPLY.......GREAT......THE BOY WHO DFEATED EVIL....DOESN'T KNOW HOW TO LAND!!!!!" screamed Hermione,

Silvanus could see that they were reaching the ground very fast, lowering his window he looked down and jumped out of the car.

"Epipléon" said Silvanus pointing the wand towards himself, and he suddenly stopped falling, instead, he was floating, the three of them saw him perfectly floating like a feather in a cold winter wind. Hermione gasped, harry smiled at him, but ron broke the scene by shaking harry and pointing down, they were only few miles away from hitting the ground,  "Arresto momentum" screamed Silvanus waving his wand at the car, the car and the people inside slowed down, and after a few minutes they touched the ground," Finite" said Silvanus, and the car stopped moving slowly, however harry hadn't moved his leg from the accelerator and so the car zoomed past Silvanus crashing into the shrieking shack.  "UH......everytime...the same story" said Ron, thankfully to the modern technology there were airbags present in the car, and so nobody got hurt.

They got out the car and Hermione started lecturing all sorts of accidents and death related to missuse of muggle artifacts, "Now you are sounding like my father..." said ron, still Hermione was furious with both Harry and Ron for not acting responsibly, " what if it had no airbags...what if you had lost control over the car.... what if Silvanus hadn't done his spell... we all could have died........" said Hermione.

They a arrived at the entrance of Hogwarts, Silvanus looked at the building, dark brown, made of bricks, pointed roofs, and a peculiar room which was situated at the highest peak of a roof, Silvanus didn't realise that his mouth was wide open until, Ron put a twig in his mouth, " Don't gape at it, it's just a castle" said Ron, Silvanus was about to throw the twig out of his mouth but he chewed it and it tasted like lemon grass.

Minevra McGonagall, was very old lady, but her voice was as commanding as a teacher to student, she welcomed, all of them, but she looked at Silvanus strangely, Hermione saw this and said, "This is Silvanus granger, my brother he was in france with my grandmother and was fortunate enough to go to beauxbatons but returned here and is a ministry auror", Harry and Ron nodded in agreement,Silvanus was shocked but accepted the alias. "Why did you say that?" Silvanus asked Hermione, "The less people know of you the better" said Hermione.

" Students were going to there usual classes, when a boy noticed a look alike of Severus snape......." there was a strange shiver in her voice, "Naturally the boy rumored it that Severus is alive and roaming the ground of Hogwarts to protect it, the rumor reached our defence agaist the dark arts teacher, professor weasley.....", "who?" interrupted Silvanus looking troubled and confused, " Bill weasley" said Hermione, " Bilius weasley, yes I remember him....he was...." as Silvanus spoke there was a hard nudge under ribs from Hermione, she and harry were glaring at him, Silvanus kept his mouth shut, McGonagall continued, ".....Bill and the boy.....um Edward greengrass was him name, went to check this theory and then they were found unconscious on the ground, Hagrid informed me, and by time we were taking them to madam pompfrey..... after... a few hours when poppy came to check on them she found.....oh I cannot speak it.... you have a look yourself.

They were taken to the office of madam pompfrey ( with every time Silvanus looking excited), they reached the matrons office, and saw the most horrific sight, on the wall of the medical room it was written--

Those who we have lost and forgot,

and have left their bodies to rot.

They will no longer be eaten by mice

They shall rise, and bring the world to it's demise.

All of them stood cold on there feet, even if they couldn't notice it but the smell told them that it was written in blood, exactly opposite to the wall were two person, Bill weasley and Edward greengrass, Silvanus moved closer to bill and saw that his hand had a big cut, but it had been cauterised, he showed it to all of them, and they knew where the blood on the wall came from.

Ron went into tears seeing his brother in this state, however, the person who did this did not want bill dead, it just wanted his blood, Silvanus had thought of this as soon as he saw that the wound was cauterized, " if the killer wanted him dead they would have left the wound open", the matron explained that they are both currently asleep and recovering from mentally-ill state,

Harry took Silvanus to a side and said, "please don't tell me that Professor Snape has become an inferi....." There was deep trouble in Harry's eyes, Silvanus was too afraid to speak so he simply nodded his head.

Assuring Headmistress McGonagall that they would take care of the matter, they all went towards the ground and near the shrieking shack, Harry was fuming with anger, decided to go into the shack, everyone else followed him, Hermione had already sensed that Snape was now an inferius, and Silvanus had told Ron about it, " So what should we do?" Asked Ron politely, "We go into the future,now" said Harry gazing everyone present in the shack, Silvanus felt a creepy chill go down his spine. Harry looked at Silvanus and said, " I am ready, we have to go", Silvanus looked at Hermione and ron, they both nodded their head confidently. Silvanus removed the time turner from his jacket pocket and wore it. He set the time and held his one hand with Harry and another with Hermione and they with a flash of light they vanished into the future.

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