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Too Much Trouble COMPLETE	By : LouisaB Category: Harry Potter > Slash - Male/Male > Remus/Sirius Views: 3350 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Sirius pulled out his own wand and moved closer to the door. “Let’s go sort these gits out,” he whispered.
Dumbledore put a hand on his shoulder and shook his head. “I’m afraid I don’t share your confidence in our abilities to take on so many counterparts. Come with me. I have an idea that might just work.”
They crept down the corridor until they were safely out of earshot and then Dumbledore picked up the pace as they navigated the deserted school.
“Where are we going?” Padfoot asked.
“The library,” Ravenclaw Sirius replied. “Right, Professor?”
Dumbledore smiled his approval at the Ravenclaw. “Correct, Mr Black.”
Ravenclaw Sirius gave the others a smug look.
“Will there be anything in here?” Remus asked as they approached the doors.
His fear was confirmed as soon as they entered the room. The shelves that had once stored hundreds upon hundreds of books were completely bare.
“There is nothing quite as desolate as a library without books,” Dumbledore commented sadly as they navigated their way through the high shelves.
“It’s like a graveyard,” Remus whispered. Even with no books, no librarian and their evil counterparts in another part of the school, the ingrained belief that you had to whisper when in the library was too strong to resist.
“But what good is coming here when there aren’t any books,” Sirius asked. “It seems a bit pointless to me.”
Dumbledore ignored his question as he led them to the restricted section. They found the shelves in that area as deserted as the rest of the library. Or nearly.
A single solitary volume stood on a shelf.
“Bit of a stretch to think that one book will have the answers we need,” Sirius muttered.
Dumbledore took the book from the shelf and passed it to Sirius. Sirius flicked through the pages in confusion.
“They’re all blank.”
Dumbledore held out his hand and Sirius passed the book back to him. Dumbledore replaced it on the shelf and then tapped it with his wand.
Remus’s jaw dropped as the whole bookcase vanished to reveal a secret room behind it.
Sirius looked at him and grinned. “I’m guessing the secret room in the library isn’t mentioned in Hogwarts: A History,” he said.
Remus shook his head. “No. Maybe it doesn’t exist on our world.”
Dumbledore chuckled. “Of course it exists, or how else would I know where to find it?”
Remus flushed as he realised his mistake. “How is it no students know about it?”
Dumbledore led them all into the secret room and closed the entrance behind them with a tap of his wand. With a few more flicks the room lit up so they could see. Inside there were more bookshelves, these ones filled with volumes.
Dumbledore took a seat at the single table in the room and gestured for the others to join him. “Some years ago, long before I became Headmaster of Hogwarts, it became quite clear that our students were rather adept at finding their way into the restricted section of the library without permission. Most of the time it was mischief makers such as yourselves, but every now and then someone with more than mischief on their minds found their way back here. It was decided to remove the very dangerous books into this secret room that can only be accessed by the Head of the school. No one else knows the secret of the empty book or the spell to open the door, not even the librarian.”
“I’m surprised the book didn’t get taken away with the rest,” Ravenclaw Sirius said.
“It no doubt did,” Dumbledore replied. “But the book will have disappeared from wherever the rest of them have been taken to and reappeared back in its place on the shelf. No one would notice a missing empty book after all.”
Remus looked around the room curiously. “And you think one of the books in here has the solution to sort out this mess?”
“Yes,” Dumbledore said. “This is, after all, where I found the very first book about opening portals to other worlds.”
“Why did you open a portal in the first place?” Sirius asked.
Dumbledore frowned at his wand. “The foolishness of an old man, I’m afraid.”
“What do you mean?”
With a long sigh Dumbledore stood up and walked towards one of the shelves. “A long time ago I had to make a difficult choice, between the man I loved and doing the right thing. I chose to fight Gellert Grindelwald despite being hopelessly in love with him. I always wondered if I made the right choice, or, had I stuck by his side, whether I might have saved him from the path he chose to walk down.”
“And?”
Dumbledore shrugged. “I discovered that in most worlds I had stayed with Gellert, but instead of bringing him back to the side of good, I was instead lured over to darkness by him. A few of my doubles broke free of his thrall later and were either killed or taken prisoner by him, but most revelled in the dark arts. I have yet to find a world where I succeeded in saving him.”
Remus stood up and joined Dumbledore across the room. “I’m sure there’s a world out there where the two of you are happy together and not evil.”
Dumbledore gave him a tiny smile. “I like to think there is, but I won’t be looking for it any longer. It’s far too dangerous. We need to get everyone back to their own worlds and close the portals once and for all.”
“Isn’t that rather like locking the stable door after the horse has bolted,” Sirius said. “What’s to stop them just re-opening them and doing this all over again?”
“The spell I want to use will not only force everyone back to their worlds, it will prevent them from leaving them again. It is a one way trip and a second trip will kill anyone who tries it.”
Sirius turned to Remus’s double. “That sounds a bit like the spell we found at your house.”
Remus’s double nodded. “Except on a larger scale since it sounds like this one will not just open a portal for the one casting it.”
“That’s right,” Dumbledore said. “This spell doesn’t exactly open a portal, but rather it throws everyone out of the universes that they shouldn’t be in instantly. It is a very powerful spell and since it causes so much disruption throughout so many worlds, has been safely hidden away in here.”
Padfoot gave a dog-like whimper, even though he was in human form. Remus’s double wrapped an arm around his shoulders and held him tight. “There has to be another way,” he said.
“Oh shit,” Sirius whispered as he realised the implications of what Dumbledore had said. If everyone returned to their own worlds Padfoot would return to a world where Remus hated him and Remus’s double would be stuck on a world where his Sirius was straight.
Even worse, they could not even hope to find each other again because another portal journey would kill them.
“Isn’t there any other option?” Remus asked, echoing his double’s question. “Maybe we can try to figure out their plan and stop them all that way. Why are they taking all these Sirius Blacks out of their own worlds in the first place? If we can figure that out, maybe we can stop their plan.”
“I told you, it’s because I’m just that awesome,” Sirius said.
“It’s because you are destined to be the Potters’ secret keeper,” Dumbledore said.
“Huh?”
Dumbledore frowned at him over the top of his glasses. “You recall the future world you visited, where little Harry had defeated Voldemort?”
“Of course.”
“Well, in that world there was a last minute switch of secret keepers and Peter was chosen. Obviously the decision to do so was a poor one. I made the mistake of talking to one of my doubles, who I mistakenly took to be a good man, and I told him about that world. Even though Voldemort has not risen in most worlds, it is only a matter of time. Tom Riddle, as he was once known, lives and is gaining followers and power all the time, across many worlds.”
“But Harry will stop him,” Sirius said. “That can’t be stopped, can it?”
“Of course it can. What if you weren’t there to be the secret keeper for the Potters? Remus is a suspect on most worlds, just as he was in the future world, and Peter was only the last minute switch. Who would the Potters turn to?”
“I don’t know. I’d have said you, but not if you’re evil.”
Dumbledore nodded. “But evil comes in many forms and it is not always recognisable. In many worlds I am still a teacher or headmaster of Hogwarts, but being so does not always mean I’m a good man. There can be evil teachers and heads just as there can be good. Evil always seeks to gain positions of power and I’m afraid many of my duplicates have been rather skilled in managing that.”
“Not all of them,” Padfoot said. “In my world you never became a teacher. You’re a prisoner of Grindelwald.”
Dumbledore smiled. “Nevertheless, on many worlds I am in an ideal position to be trusted by the Potters when the time comes. Imagine Dumbledore, a dark wizard, already in league with Grindelwald, but trusted by the Potters and made their secret keeper. What do you think would happen then?”
“He wouldn’t betray them to Voldemort,” Remus said. “Not if he is loyal to Grindelwald.”
“Unless Grindelwald and Voldemort sought an alliance,” Dumbledore replied. “Imagine it. Two of the most powerful dark wizards ever born, united together.”
“With an evil Dumbledore thrown in the mix we’d have no chance,” Sirius said. “We have to send them back where they came from and stop this from happening on any world.”
“It could already have happened on one world,” Remus said.
“Quite right,” Dumbledore said. “In fact I think it would be astonishing if it hadn’t. But we have to stop it from happening on even more through the use of the portals.”
Across at the table Padfoot sniffed and Remus ached to go hold him and comfort him. Then he remembered it wasn’t his place any more and his double did exactly what Remus had been thinking, pulling Padfoot into his arms and holding him tight.
“We can’t separate them after all they’ve gone through,” Sirius whispered.
“I don’t see we have much choice,” Remus replied miserably. “I feel like this is all our fault. We pushed them together, just assuming they would be as happy as we are.”
“They could be,” Sirius interrupted. “We just have to find a way to get them both to the same world.”
“And how are you going to manage that?” Remus’s double snapped. “Dumbledore is right. We have to send our duplicates back where they came from and if that means us being separated then there’s nothing we can do about it.”
Remus didn’t even realise his tears were falling as he watched his and Sirius’s double cling to each other, knowing that as soon as Dumbledore found the right spell they would be separated for the rest of their lives.
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