Chapter 170 - 170- searching for Harry

HARRY'S POV

As he looked at his watch, Harry saw the time he used the time turner has arrived, which meant Marcus haas returned and he can leave the maze.

As he left the maze he saw the entire audience in a state of panic as Dumbledore, the other headmasters and Fudge kept trying to calm them down.

Seeing that nobody noticed him, Harry left for the ROR to rest, after all it was a long day.

JAMES' POV

With Marcus appearing suddenly in the middle of the field, announcing the return of Voldemort, getting taken by Moody, finding out he wasn't Moody but Barty Crouch, and calming his son down enough to tell them what actually happened twice, first as a father and then as an auror, it took James five hours to remember his intended meeting with Harry.

Rushing to the side chamber for the chance Harry is still there, waiting for him, James didn't actually have much hopes about that, if he was in Harry's place, twice abandoned and left to defend himself, he wouldn't give him a chance, but he gave a chance and James spat on it, no matter the reason, James knew he blew his shot.

It was why James wasn't surprised that no one was at the side chamber, and why, if it was before the whole 'Voldemort returns to life' fiasco, James would have left the boy alone to calm down before trying again.

Now he can't.

It isn't safe anymore, he needs to come back and live with his family.

Going back to the grand Hall where students kept talking about his younger son and the return of the dark lord.

Going over to the one table he wanted to stay away from, James approached a student he saw Harry talk with all the time last year.

"Excuse me, ms Lovegood?" Her head turned in his direction as her conversation with the French champion, an eyebrow raised when she saw who approached her, eyes turning from warm and smiling to so cold and sharp he couldn't believe she is the child of weirdo Lovegood, who he used to prank as a child.

"Do you know where is my son?" As if she knew what he was about to ask Ms Lovegood immediately said "Wasn't he taken by Professor Moody after shouting about the return of You-Know-Who?"

"I meant my other son, Harry."

The girl's eyes opened in mock surprise "You have another son?! But how would I know where he is, I only know one Harry, and he isn't a Potter."

At that point James had enough. "Tell me where he is, now!" Raising his voice probably wasn't the best course of action, as not only the entire Grand Hall seemed to stop talking and look at him in silence instead, the French champion who sat beside ms. Lovegood took out her wand pointed it at him.

"Do you have no shame!" The party Veela yelled. "You abandoned Harry, twice! forced him to concede the tournament, only for your son 'The boy who cheats' to win, and now you expect him to be at your back and call?" The entire Hall was filled with hash conversations, as the Veela's words sinked in every person's mind.

'Made him concede? What on earth is she talking about?' James was truly confused, but he wasn't an auror for nothing, remembering how Crouch talked about helping Marcus win the tournament, he quickly made the connection.

"No, it's a misunderstanding! Now I have to talk with him! It's for an investigation."

Before any of them could answer, a voice he hated was heard behind him.

"Mister Potter, please stop bothering the students." Snape appeared behind him, usually he would have started arguing with the man, but now he had more pressing issues.

"Listen Snape, they think we forced Harry to give up the tournament and help Marcus win! Harry thinks that!" A passive look appeared on the man face, one that James recognized from some of their spats as a.d.u.l.ts, one that meant he keeps his emotions in check, yet James recognized the glint of understanding, horror and anger in the man's eyes.

"Miss Lovegood, where is mister Peverel?"

LUNA'S POV

Luna knew she has to give an answer of sorts, her head of house's eyes didn't look like they would take no as an answer.

"He went to sleep." She said, and watched the two men run in the direction of the Slytherin common so fast that she didn't have to hold her giggling back.

"What's so funny?" Fleur seemed to ask, but Luna instead of answering reached her left ear and sent magic into her earring.

"Harry," She said quietly only Fleur hearing her. "Professor Snape and James are looking for you." She heard a quiet "thanks" reaching her ear as she saw Fleur standing with her mouth opened in shock as her eyes looked at the earring.

"I have so many questions!" She said, before dragging Luna away from the Hall as Luna thought how to explain it without lying yet not activating the Fidelius charm as to not make her friend lose her memory.

SEVERUS' POV

As Severus ran to the Slytherin dorms he thought once more about escaping, even though he knew it was useless.

If Severus didn't know what the dark mark was, he would have escaped already.

But the moment you take the dark mark you are doomed for life, either yours or the dark lord's, and Severus wasn't planning on dying anytime soon.

Which is why he decided to stay, making sure to become a spy on both sides, making sure each side think he believes in their cause, when in fact both causes were twisted.

As a half blood and a member of both sides, Severus knew each side's arguments vary well.

He knew the real reason most purebloods hated muggleborns is the destruction of their culture and the self-righteousness they seem to possess in the last 100 years.

As the muggle's studies and society progressed more and more, muggleborns who used to come to Hogwarts without much previous knowledge and with a will to become part of the already established society, became unwilling to learn the culture of the magical world, thus creating hate in the magical world toward them.

On the other hand, muggleborns didn't want to change their traditions, even if they changed most of them by living most of their their Hogwarts years in the magical world.

The two sides would have reached some sort of middle ground in the end, probably by keeping the core of the magical culture while adding fun muggle traditions if not for the two people the war seem to be all about/ Dumbledore and Voldemort.

The second Dumbledore became a headmaster, Chief Warlock, and Supreme Mugwamp, he started to push for changing all the traditional holidays to muggle holidays, something that made the tension that was already there to explode.

Now, if that was all, maybe the purebloods would have pushed Dumbledore out from his positions of power or excepted it, but around the same time another power rouse, Voldemort.

Having someone as powerful and charismatic as him to fight for their cause was something they needed.

Once again, If that was all it would have come to an end with political battles and maybe a few duels, especially with magical people's laziness and willingness to accept status quo, but there was two thing no one could have predicted.

The fact that the leaders of both sides are crazy megalomaniacs and that they didn't really care for their causes made it so the escalated every peace talks into fights.

And the fact that both made sure their followers and enemies both become more and more invested in the war.

On the 'light' side Dumbledore used manipulations of emotions to convince the young students he is the best wizard to ever grace the earth, and after you joined and made friends you couldn't back out without being considered evil, while showing the other side that if they fight there is no bad consequences.

On the 'dark' side Voldemort used the dark mark to create insanity in his servants.

Making even those that separated the craziness from their mind to attached themselves to the things that cause them the most joy, and take them to the extreme.

Those that loved dark magic became obsessed with the unforgivables, those that liked money and their status became unable to let it go.

Even Severus didn't get away from it, with his unhealthy obsession with Lily, something he knew that if she died would have become worse.

Luckily for him she lived, and instead his obsession became helping Slytherin students and making Gryffindor students suffer as he hoped as a child the head of house would be like for him.

It is why he wouldn't let Harry walk the same path he did, even if it meant working together with Potter for a while.