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The God of the Sun
Blurb: Alternative 5th year. What would have happened if Umbridge had confronted Harry about the DA a day before his vision. Snape is about to find out he was very wrong in assuming it was only his mothers love that saved him. (Egyptian magic)
Chapter 1
The past
It was a very warm day in the middle of October, very unusual for the time of year, but then again they needed some warm, Voldemort had taken hold of the dementors and was using them against the ministry themselves, making Britain have one of the coldest Summers ever recorded, but then the Order of the Phoenix operated mission sunshine, James Potter had named it and it had stuck, much to Severus Snape's displeasure, he was not going to call a mission 'mission sunshine' it was degrading to a Slytherin, which worked, and Dumbledore sent the dementors back to Azkaban Prison. Then when James had returned back to the hidden house, he found Lily holding a letter.
"What's that?" James said to Lily as he took of his cloak and hung it up. "Where's Harry?" Harry was only three months old and was currently being read to by Remus Lupin, who had gone straight to the hidden house to tell Lily the good news, whilst Sirius and James had gone down the pub. Remus didn't think that Harry could understand any word he was saying, he was just about managing to hold his own head up, but he was hoping to turn him in to a book lover when he was older, and because of who his father and god-father were he thought that he would start young.
"Harry's okay, Remus is looking after him, in the living room" Lily said
"Okay" James turned back from hanging up his stuff to see that Lily hadn't moved. "What is that then?" He repeated
"We have been invited to a ceremony" Lily said choosing her words carefully
"Cool, who's?"
"Harry's"
"Harry?"
"Our son Harry" Lily said exasperated, sometimes she wondered why James was considered very intelligent.
"What ceremony?" James said, he knew that he had forgotten to change Harry once, but he never thought that he would go and arrange a ceremony thing and forget about it.
"He has been chosen James, he is a very powerful child, and they have chosen him"
"Chosen him to do what Lily" James said panicking
"Allow him to access all the powers he was born with, plus extra powers which will be donated to him, from… other kinds of people"
"What people?"
"Well" Lily opened the letter "Other Witches and Wizards, and Alchemists and Philosopher's and Bards form the seven kingdoms, and most importantly the gods of ancient Egypt"
James and Lily fell in to a silence; neither of them knew what to say.
"But, what does this mean?" James asked finally
"He will have to go to this ceremony and then he will be placed in a bowl like structure, then he will be given the gifts from the powerful people" Lily trailed off not really knowing what to say.
"But, he is only three months old; he already has a prophecy on his head, why this as well"
"It is because of the prophecy that he will be given these powers, just think James, he may have the power to with stand Voldemort and not be blown apart like so many other powerful witches and wizards have been"
"Hey James I thought I heard you come in" Remus said walking in to the kitchen, holding Harry, he then stopped and felt the air pressure, which seemed to be like static electricity in the room "What has happened?"
Lily held out the letter and Remus took it. James held out his arms and took Harry from Remus, then held Harry close, Harry then tried to grab James glasses, which appeared to be Harry's favourite game, that and pull out Lily's big sparkly earrings, and Sirius's hair band, which he had taken to wearing, because his hair had gotten to long, and when they flew it went in to his face. Remus read the letter.
"Tomorrow" He said looking up "That is a bit soon isn't it, doesn't he have to be a bit older?"
"Apparently not" James said, unhooking Harry's death grip on the frame of his glasses, James decided Harry would be a good seeker after that.
The next day
"How do we get there?" Sirius asked they had told him that morning, after Lily had given him the sober up potion.
"It says that at exactly eleven o'clock the letter will become a port key" Remus said "Are you sure we could not ask someone like Dumbledore to look this over?"
"I did" Lily said "I rang him on the flow last night, and apparently he is going to be there to"
"Dumbledore is going to give Harry a gift" Sirius said "I bet it is a sherbet lemon"
"Sirius" Lily scolded as James and Remus laughed
"Well it is eleven o'clock, are you ready little guy?" James said bending down to pick up Harry, who had been balanced on the sofa, as Lily had dressed him in his best robes and Harry found them extremely uncomfortable, especially when people held him.
"Okay, on the count of three everyone touch the letter" Lily instructed "One…two…three"
"Wow this place is huge!" Sirius said as they arrived in a huge white entrance hall, which had four big pillars and cut in to each one were various leaves, flowers and animals.
"Sirius Shh" Lily said she had the feeling that this was one of these places where you had to be quiet, like museums, or in the doctor's waiting room. The sort of place which everyone whispered in, but no-one knew why they were whispering or even if they had to but they just did anyway.
"Welcome" Came a voice from behind one of the arch ways which led of form the entrance hall "You must be the Potter family, and who are your two" An old man said as he stepped in to view.
"I am Harry's god-father and he" Sirius pointed to Remus "Is Harry's god-wolf"
"God-wolf?"
"Of course everyone needs a god-wolf" Sirius grinned
"Oh, I see" The man said looking at Remus, as if he suddenly knew everything about him, from those very vague words Sirius had so pleasantly put together "Please follow me in to the dressing room, then I will come and collect you when it is time" the man said to Harry "But I am afraid that you will have to wait out here and someone will come and collect you and take you to the hall" He said to everyone else
"What I am not leaving Harry with you I don't know who you are or if you are really going to do that or even if you even work here!" Lily just about said in a normal tone of voice
"I thought that you would say that, you can come with Harry" The man said
"Oh, okay" Lily had to admit she had been prepared for a longer fight than that.
"But the others will have to stay here, follow me" He said, Lily then took Harry off of James and followed the old man.
"Where do you think they are going?" James said
"I don't know but I don't think that Lily will allow anything bad to happen, we will just have to wait" Remus said
"Okay" James said giving up after Lily disappeared from view, he moved over and went to go sit down on one of the huge marble benches, which were dotted around the hall, each one had something carved in to them, elements and seasons appeared to be on the ones in the area they were left to stand it. Just as James had lowered himself to sit down a voice came from behind him, scaring the living daylights out of James, and making him jump forward and crash straight in to Sirius who over balanced and also fell, and they both landed in a heap on the floor.
"I am sorry to scare you" the female sounding voice said, Remus looked up from laughing at his two best friends
"It's okay" He said, this person was very strange, she looked like she had a bird on the top of her head, and gave off the aura that she was someone very young trapped inside an old ladies body.
"Is everyone who works here old?" Sirius whispered to James as they got up
"Looks like it" James laughed back
"The ceremony is starting follow me" The old lady said
"All ready, but don't they have to prepare Harry?" James asked
"They already have done" The woman said
"But they only just left here"
"Time moves in a very strange way here, it does not go forwards or backwards or even move at all, but you have to remember time is a very powerful tool to those who think of the world as 3D shapes" the old lady smiled
"Does that mean that if I believe that everything is 2D, I will never get old?" Sirius said
"No" The old woman said
"Ohh" Sirius said, as Remus rolled his eyes
The old woman led them to a very large room on the left of the corridor which they had gone down, the room was as big as the great hall, but you could see the ceiling which was painted with mosaics and paintings, like cathedrals and buildings in Rome. There were about five hundred cushioned chairs put out in lines, with a walk way down the middle, which led up to a massive dish like structure, and to the left and right of the structure there were two seats. The old woman then led them to the seats next to the dish. Then the hall door opened and hundreds of people began to stream in to the room and find there places.
"The ceremony will begin soon" The lady said then disappeared
The hall fell silent.
Then Lily came in holding Harry, who looked like he was wearing a christening robe. She walked up to the dish and placed Harry in it. Then a man stepped out from a door that was behind the dish and walked up to it.
"Welcome" He said "You all know what we are here for, this is a very special child, let the ceremony begin" He then put his hands either side of Harry's small head "We will give the child full use of his powers, plus any you think that he will need"
"Who is that?" James said
"That is the first Egyptian god, the father or husband to all there other gods" She answered, then other people started to join him by the dish, and the whole room was engulfed by white light.