Reminising Keeperoliver

A/N: This will be a one and done. It is a sad story with no pairing and major deaths and a lot of heartache. It is an after the war story with Harry as the only active character in the story, but mentions many others.

Reminising:

The sun sat high over head with it's rays reflecting off the many different bodies of water down below. A small town sat at the edge of all these bodies and it had access to all these water ways by using the main body of water which it bordered.

Mountains formed on each side of the valley below, with a main roadway traveling across them.

Unseen by the people below sat a lone figure who seemed to be thinking. The fact was, he was thinking back on his past and how it got him where he was at the moment.

The man had a full beard and long, tangled hair. He wore a heavy jacket as it was still cold on the peaks of the mountain range.

His name was Harry Potter and he was alone by choice because of what went on in his past. This is what he was thinking about at the moment. It went like this (The following is all happening in Harry's mind):

It all began in the lower levels of the Ministy of Magic. We had just got the globe containing the prophecy and were running for our lives. Ron was still afected by the minds that attacked him and Hermione was doing her best to keep him going. Ginny, Luna and Neville were firing spells behind them to slow down the pursuit of the DEs. Luna happened to hit a shelf off to the side which held all the Time Turners the Ministry owned. They didn't stop to see if any survived the spell or the drop to the ground.

They entered a chamber that had a single object sitting in the middle of the ground that loooked like a mirror Harry once saw in Hogwarts, but there was a difference. There was nothing written above it like the mirror of Erised.

Harry's group came together as the DEs were surrounding them. One of them walked up to Harry and he knew who it was right off. "Fancy meeting you here Mr. Malfoy. Running errends for your master?"

"You know why we are here Potter, Give me the globe with the prophecy in it."

"Afraid I can't help you there, I don't have it."

"One of you does, and I want it now. If you give it to me, We will let you go free."

"You say that like you really will, which we both know is a lie. Tom won't let you do that. You will kill the others and take me to him. We would rather choose our own way of leaving."

"It doesn't have to be that way. I will take you and the globe and the rest will go free."

Neville was sitting on the steps with a broken ankle, but heard everything and told Harry, "Don't listen to him Harry." and he tried to stand, but when he did, the globe fell from his hands and broke on the ground below.

Lucius cried out, "Kill them all. The prophecy is lost to us." and a fight broke out between the two groups, but soon, others entered the chamber and Harry found out they were all Phoenix members and the fight turned in their favor. Harry was joined by Sirius and they fought back to back. Hermione was hit with a curse that opened up her side and she fell to the ground with blood spilling all over the place. Remus saw this and went to help her. Ginny was hit with a curse that broke her wrist. Luna was the only one left from Harry's group beside Harry that was not injured.

Sirius was dueling Bellatrix and was doing well, until he got cocky and was hit with a stunner that sent him backwards towards the mirror. Harry saw the mirror glow and began to pull Sirius to it. Bellatrix saw this and began running yelling out, "I killed Sirius Black." She was a little premature with her words as Harry saw what was happening and used a spell on the mirror, "Relashio!"and it pulled his godfather from the portal and he dropped to the ground at Harry's feet. No Death Eater saw this, so Sirius was still considered dead to them and the Dark Lord.

Remus had healed Hermione the best he could and then went to Sirius. Harry called out to him, "Get him out of here Moony. If they think he is dead, it may work to our favor."

"But I can still be of help to you , Harry."

"The others are still here and can help us. You take Sirius and Hermione back to the manor and we'll join up with you later. Neville, are you good to go?"

Luna had wrapped Neville's ankle up and he was standing on it to test it out. He called out, "I'm OK Harry, thanks to Luna. You go on and we will follow you up the steps."

Luna was the only one to make it to the top, as Neville had to care for Ron. What she saw made her ill. Dumbledore and Voldemort were in the middle of a struggle and neither could gain an advantage. Voldemort saw a chance to end the battle and entered Harry's mind for control. He told this to Albus to get him to lay down his wand or he would kill Harry.

Albus saw Harry struggle with Tom's attempt to control him. He saw him begin to falter, then his eyes became very bright and his face became angry. The next thing Albus saw was Tom flying across the room and slamming into the wall behind him. Bellatrix had to run to him and apparate with him. Before she could do this, the Minister of Magic entered the hall with several aurors to see her pick Voldemort up and apparate with him from the hall.

Harry and Luna were the only ones up there who knew about Sirius. Everyone else were acting upon what Bellatrix was singing when she entered the hall.

Harry had to tell Dumbledore and he asked him to keep it to himself. They both agreed that what Tom didn't know may come back and kill him later. Albus got his order members to help take care of the students down below and He had helped Harry back to Hogwarts and then he would return and settle with Fudge. For Fudge, it was the beginning of the end of his being Minister.

He still sat there going back to what went on back then. His friends never wrote him that summer and he thought it was going to be a long lonely one, but Albus Dumbledore took him away from it all, when he showed up on the Dursleys doorstep in bad shape. He nearly fell into Petunia when she opened the door. She didn't know what to do, so she grabbed him and pulled him to the den and sat him down in Vernon's chair. She then went to the stairs and called for Harry. He came down and saw the Professor. He walked over to him, "Professor, what happened to you? You look terrible."

"Thank you Harry, it's good to see you as well. But you must pack your things as we are leaving here. There are things that need to get done, and I don't know how much time I have. Hurry along now and get packed." and Harry ran to his room while Petunia looked down at the man she hated because he took her sister away from her and then left Lily's son on her door step when she was murdered.

Harry was back down in minutes as he never unpacked his things when he got home. Albus excused them from Petunia and then they left to the stand of trees in the playground that would hide their Apparation. Once again Albus nearly collapsed when they landed. Harry wasn't too stable either, and when Albus fell on him, he caught him and they managed to stay standing. When Harry looked around, he saw they landed in a pasture outside of a two story cottage he never saw before.

Harry help the Professor into the cottage where he saw Sirius and Remus sitting down and talking. Remus jumped up and went to help Harry with Albus while Sirius helped Harry.

Albus then told his story of how he got that way. He told them all of Tom's use of certain objects to make him immortal. He told them how he found out and what happened when he found the first one. He was ignorant enough to wear the ring and how it poisoned him as soon as he put it on. He felt that it poisoned him and he was dying because of it, He told them all he would need their help to find the rest and what he thought they were. Both Sirius and Remus jumped up when he told them of the Slytherin Locket. They had both seen it in a cabinet in the Black Manor. Sirius called for Kreacher and had him bring it to him. Kreacher did so with sadness.

When Albus destroyed it, it made Kreacher happier and he left feeling much better than when he arrived. It was the only one they found in the summer break, though they searched the rest of the summer. Remus said they needed help and thought it should be someone Albus trusted above all others.

Minerva was his first choice, but she would need to take over his duties as Head Master during his absence. He thought of Hagrid, but he was too large and brought a lot of notice to them if he went. Finally he thought of Alastor Moody. Not only was he trust worthy, but he was quite powerful. When he was called and asked to join them, he was right there.

Even with Moody, the search went nowhere. Finally it was time for school to start back up and Albus and Harry had to leave. The others were left behind to find clues to where the other objects might be.

Harry sat in his normal cabin and soon he was joined by Hermione. He was going to ask her something, but she started the talk, "I'm sorry for not writing Harry. I was afraid I might say something that would let out about Sirius still being alive. I knew Ron wouldn't let it slip as he never writes and Neville, Ginny and Luna wouldn't write to you either."

"I knew this already Hermione. I figured that was why I didn't hear from you. It's alright, besides I have been with the Professor for the last part of the summer."

Hermione wondered what he was doing with the Professor and was about to ask when Harry went on, "He needed help getting a new Professor to fill a position in the school. By the time he agreed, it was almost time to return, so I stayed with him for the last week or so. He trained me on how Tom came into power. How he used people to gain something he wanted or killed them to take what he wanted."

The rest of the trip was with the six members who made the Ministry fight. They all looked fine and ready to continue their learning at school. Harry thought Luna and Neville might be getting closer as a couple, but Neville sat away from her and Luna talked with Ginny for most of the trip.

It was a week after they returned that Harry saw things that made him uneasy. First was the way Lavender had been watching Ron when Hermione's back was turned. The next thing he saw was the way Ginny and Dean were always around each other. For some reason, this got Harry feeling like he wanted to pull her away from Dean and lock her in her room to keep her safe. He would never do that, but it hurt him to see them acting the way they were. Then one night he saw them kissing and Harry felt lost.

He also saw Neville talking and holding hands with Hannah Abbott and also saw them kiss. That explained about him and Luna. It didn't explain why Luna wasn't worried about it. He tried asking her about it, but she just kept saying, "It just wasn't meant to be Harry." and go on her way.

When the Quidditch tryouts ended and Ron had earned his way onto the team, Lavender made her play for Ron, and he was no match for the pretty young lady who knew what she wanted. When Hermione saw this, all she could do was leave the common room and out into the school. Harry followed her and caught up to her in the unused classroom. He took a seat next to her and asked if she was alright.

She just wanted to know why Ron was being such a git. Harry thought about it for a moment and then told her how he felt about her. It was the one thing that started this entire trip to where he was now. Her answer was, "Oh Harry, I'm sorry. I just don't feel that way with you. Don't get me wrong, I love you, I really do. It's just that I'm not in love with you. Remeber back to fourth year when you said I was the sister you never had. That is the way I have felt about you since then. The brother I always wanted. You are the best brother a sister could ask for and because of that, I love you, but not in the way you are asking me for."

"OH!" Harry said. Then he got up and left as he heard Ron and Lavender enter the room he and Hermione shared. Hermione stayed there and listened to the two snogging and carrying on. When Ron saw her, he broke away from Lavender and tried talking to Hermione but she just sent the birds she was controlling at him, chasing him and Lavender away. She stayed there crying her heart out over him.

It wasn't long after this that Professor Dumbledore started asking Harry to join him and the others in their search. Harry asked if they could use another person in the search and when Albus asked who, Harry called for Dobby. So it was that another one joined the ranks of the searchers and Dobby right away began to show benefits when he left and returned with the lost Diadem of Rowena Ravenclaw. He also told them of a goblet that he heard Bellatrix was asked to protect for her master. She took it to her own vault in Gringots.

With four down and two to go, things were looking better as they at least knew where the fifth one was. Albus was sure that Tom's snake, Nagini, was also a Horcrux, so they knew them all.

Albus didn't know when he would tell Harry of his feeling that Harry was also a horcurx. To tell him would be telling him he had to die and It was the last thing Albus wished to do to the boy.

Things only got worse for Harry as Ron and Lavender were becoming bolder in front of others and Hermione was cutting herself off from her friends. Harry finally went to Albus and asked him to help him get away from what was going on with his friends. Albus contacted Severus and they all sat and went over what had to happen. It came down to, Severus would find something that upset him to no end and would give Harry detention every night for the rest of the school year, to include weekends.

When Ron and Ginny heard this they were ready to go head hunting for the DADA Professor, but Harry told them to just forget about it and he made Ginny the new Captain of the team and the new Seeker. She was totally pissed at this as she loved being a Chaser, but she had to do it for the team.

The team had won their first two matches, but needed to beat the Slytherin team in order to win the House Cup. Harry was in the office of Severus' trying to come up with a plan to get the cup from Gringotts and a way to get Nagini away from Tom to kill her. They had studied long into the day, long enough for the match to be over. They finally called it a day and Harry made his way back to Gryffindor House and he heard the screaming coming from the common room. He thought they were complaining about Harry being gone from the team as the reason they lost. When he entered the room, he saw Ginny dancing on the table, holding the cup. She saw Harry and jumped down and ran to him. Harry stopped her from hurting each other and shook her hand to congratulate her and the team for their brilliant effort, and then he went to his dorm to get some sleep as the others continued to party. Ginny however, felt something was off with Harry and went to Hermione to see if she knew.

She never made to Hermione though as Dean came back and brought her to the table to continue her dance with the cup. She soon forgot about Harry and Hermione for the evening.

There were two thing that Harry and Albus didn't know. One was that Remus and Tonks got married and that Tonks agreed to use her abilities to get into Gringotts and get the cup. She morphed into Bellatrix and entered the bank and then the vault. She searched the vault and finally found the cup up on a shelf that hung on the wall. She knew about the spells that were used in the vault, so she transformed a pole into a long rope and used this to lasso the cup and bring it to her. She couldn't use magic on the cup, but she could on the rope and she levitated the rope back to her to keep it from falling and making too much noise.

She got the cup back to Dumbledore's cottage and Alastor flooed Albus to tell him they had the cup. When he asked how they got it, Alastor just told him a little old lady walked in and asked to go to Bella's vault so she could get her cup back. They were only too happy to oblige.

What her and Remus didn't know at the time, was that Tonks was pregnant and took a very big risk using her powers while she was this way. So many things could go wrong. But it worked out OK, and in two months, or Christmas time, they both knew she was with child. She was four months along.

Even after finding out about Tonks, Remus continued to help the team in their search, even though it was over. All there was to destroy was Nagini and that was the hardest one to do.

None of them knew of what Draco had been doing duiring his free time. He had been repairing the old box in the RoR that would allow death eaters to enter Hogwarts undetected. He was beginning to feel it would never work. He was eating an apple while working one day and put it on the shelf to Hang the door. He struggled with it for about fifteen minutes when he finally got it done. He opened the door back up to get his apple when he saw it was gone. He closed the door and waited for a minute to open it again. The apple was back, and a bite was taken from it in the area Draco hadn't been eating so he would know it was found. He danced around for a few minutes and then he left to let his family know it was done. Then the planning on the raid to Hogwarts would be put into play. It was a two front attack on the school with Tom on the out side and Bella on the inside, with her troops. It was brilliant plan, but even those are not fool proof.

Albus removed Harry from classes in order to plan an attack on Tom and his men. Alastor had called in those he trusted from the Auror Corp to help in their plan. Remus would not allow Tonks to be a part of it, and she went into a rage as to why she couldn't be at her husbands side to fight. Even carrying a baby didn't sound reasonable not to be there, but Remus was adamant against allowing her to go. She had to stay behind and care for herself and her baby.

Hermione and Ginny sat in the common room wondering why the Professor removed Harry from DADA class and why he didn't atttend his other classes. Hermione always worried about Harry when he disappeared like this, and now this worry spread to Ginny. After the Ministry incident, Harry had been seeing more of the Professor and less of his friends. Now this happens and it didn't set well with the two young ladies.

Neville came into the room and took a seat next to Hermione, "Did you two hear what happened to Harry? No?. Well then let me tell you. Him and Professor Dumbledore left the grounds and as soon as they were clear of the charms from the school, they apparated. Harry had his cloak wrapped around his shoulders like he was ready to put it on if it became necessary. They weren't moving slow either. I was lucky enough to be coming from Herbology when I saw them."

"Was the Professor carrying anything?" Hermione asked.

"It looked like his wand was in one hand and I don't know what was in his right hand, but he sure did take precautions with what ever it was. He held it like it was poison or something. Why didn't he just carry it in his robes?"

"Did you see what color it was Neville?" Hermione asked again.

"I guess you would call it an off white, close to yellow. There wasn't much showing of it though. He had something wrapped around the big end of it."

Hermione didn't ask anything else as she got sick and ran to her room. Ginny excused herself from Neville and followed her up the stairs. She saw where Hermione wasn't really sick, but she was shaking like a leaf on a tree.

"Hermione, what is it?"

"Harry must have gone back down to the Chamber and got one of the fangs still in the body of the Basilisk. What do they need it for, I wonder?"

"That still doesn't tell me why your shaking. What's the matter Hermione?"

"Ginny, the poison is still active in the fang. If either of them gets scratched, they're as good as dead. If they have, it is for some reason that could mean their death, or someone elses death."

Now they were both shaking.

Harry and the Professor met up with the rest and began their trip to meet Tom and see what they could do to end this thing. Albus had the fang to take care of Nagini, if he was given the chance. He also wanted to end it now while he was still able to fight. His strength was down quite a bit because of the poison already in his body and he felt he didn't have much longer to live. They learned that the Aurors Alastor had asked to join were not available because of the new Minister putting them all on alert. It was just the six of them going against Tom and whoever he had with him.

They got to the Riddle Manor and began their approach when Tom and seven of his death eaters left the house. They faced off against each other and the fight began. For some reason, Tom didn't have his best warriors with him.

The fight began with Albus and Tom squaring off and the rest picked an opponent and began their fight. For some reason, Harry was facing Peter Pettigrew and it was very different then the last time they faced each other. This time Harry was prepared and Peter seemed to be holding back for some reason. Because of this, Harry beat Peter with the spell he learned in the potions book he got from Professor Slughorn. "SECTUMSEMPRA!" and Peter lost his left arm and part of his side, as well as his left leg. He was dead when he hit the ground.

Though it sickened Harry, he couldn't allow it to affect him as there were more to fight. He looked to see the Professor, as he was the weakest one of the group, and saw where he dropped the fang on the ground. He Acceo'ed the fang to him and looked for Nagini. It was dark, so his sight was hampered by it. When he saw movement behing Tom, he used a Solaris spell and lit up the area. Sure enough, it was Nagini, and Harry went after her to put an end to Tom's immortality.

She was faster than he thought, and she had the ability to hide in areas Harry couldn't get to. However he may not have this, but he did have an imagination. He used smoke, water and what ever to driver her out from hiding. The chase took him far away from the fight and he was getting tired. Nagini seemed to have an abundance of energy, but was running out of hiding places. Finally she just turned and attacked Harry. Not expecting this, Harry stuck his arm out to protect his face. It just so happened to be holding the fang. Nagini was stabbed by the fang under her lower jaw and up into her brain. Harry had killed his second being tonight. He turned and went back to the fight, and he could not believe that both Albus and Remus were down and from the look of it, would not be getting back up, as the blood pooling around their bodies was too much. He also saw where Alastor had suffered another injury and held his left arm to his body to protect it. Sirius seemed OK.

All that was left of Tom's force was Tom and no one else, but he was more than capable of handling both opponents. Once Harry joined the fight, it was over for Tom, however he did have the last say, "You may have beaten me here, Potter, but you can't be in two places at the same time. I'm afraid that Hogwarts will be lost to you by the time you get back there." and he fired the killing curse at Harry and it hit him in the chest. He went down from it, but he had fired the same spell at Tom just a second later than he did. When it hit Tom, he knew it was the end of his life.

Dobby had to help Alastor back to the castle and when they got there, spells had been set up so that even Dobby couldn't enter the grounds. He was soon joined by Harry and Sirius. What they saw was too hard to believe. The school was on fire and the walls were had huge holes in them from being blasted. Bodies were lying on the ground, and some were students. There were Death Eaters lying there as well.

By the time they made it to the castle, the fighting was almost finished, but not the way Harry liked it. The students and Professors were surrounded by fifty DEs. Then, an amazing thing happened, and a charge came from the stairs and they were lead by Arthur, Molly and her sons. They equaled the number of DEs, but were no match for their skills. Harry, Dobby, Sirius and Alastor came from the opposite side. With this new attack, the students and the Professors, who had been afraid to get the students involved even though if it hadn't been for them, they would have been done a lot sooner, joined back into the fight.

Harry saw Percy go down, as well as Professor Slughorn. He saw where Justin Finch Fletchley was down. And the list was longer as he went to help anyone needing it. Michael Corner, Colin Creevy, Lavender Brown and many more. He watched as Molly faced Bellatrix and could not believe how Molly had Bella backing up. Then when Bella tripped over some rubble, the fight ended when Molly used a Bombarta on her. After this, the fight was lost to the DEs as their numbers were down to just five. Harry looked around to see who else they lost and when he saw Dobby and Alastor both down. It was too much for him to bare. He collapsed to the ground.

When he came back to the living, it was three days later. It was all over and the Light had won, but the cost was hard to take for some. Sirius had lost his last friend he had in the world. Moly and Arthur had lost a son. Tonks had lost her husband. He had lost a friend, an uncle and a Godfather, as Sirius could not function in his current state.

Harry tried talking to Hermione and Ginny, but they both refused to talk to him saying that he deserted them in their greatest need. He never got a chance to explain what happened. Even though they heard about Tom and the rest, they still wouldn't talk to Harry. Maybe it was the loss they sustained and the grief that accompanied it. Or maybe it was the hurt they felt when he left, but what ever it was, Harry left the school and went to Gringotts. He had his parents will read and he learned that he was more than well off. He was told of some property he had from one of his great grand parents in the States and this is where he was now. Coeur D'Alene Idaho.

Having finished his trip to the past, he apparated down to his cottage and began his dinner. He learned that Lavender was not killed in the fight and that Molly and Arthur wanted him to return to the Burrow with them, which he refused. It was the last time he saw any of them.

Harry turned on the radio to listen to the musice he had growned to love. However what he he heard when the radio started was that Sasquatch had been sighted in the Rockies not far from Coeur D'Alene and his home. He finished his dinner and then went to bed. He would go searching in the morning for this Sasquatch.

When he got up the next morning, he was surprised when he heard, "How ya been Harry? Long time no see." Sasquatch was none other than Rubeus Hagrid.

A/N: Just thought I'd throw this out there to see what happens. I don't expect much, so we'll see if I continue it or not. I know it was a lot of story to put into one chapter and it seemed pushed, but like I said, I don't expect much from it. As always, Ollie the Keeper.