Chapter 1: Capture

*Author's Note: This first part is taken from Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix when Harry is possessed by Voldemort. The following chapters are all my original work stemming from this moment.

Sure it was over. Sure Voldemort had decided to flee, Harry made to run out from behind his statue guard, but Dumbledore bellowed, "Stay where you are, Harry!"

For the first time, Dumbledore sounded frightened. Harry could not see why. The hall was quite empty but for themselves, the sobbing Bellatrix still trapped under her statue, and the tiny baby Fawkes croaking feebly on the floor —

And then Harry's scar burst open. He knew he was dead: it was pain beyond imagining, pain past endurance —

He was gone from the hall, he was locked in the coils of a creature with red eyes, so tightly bound that Harry did not know where his body ended and the creature's began. They were fused together, bound by pain, and there was no escape —

And when the creature spoke, it used Harry's mouth, so that in his agony, he felt his jaw move….

"Kill me now, Dumbledore…."

Blinded and dying, every part of him screaming for release, Harry felt the creature use him again.

"No… It cannot be…"

The creature's coils loosened, the pain was gone, Harry was horrified to realize he was in the arms of Voldemort, cradled like a baby. With an echoing crack, they were gone —

Dumbledore's spell only just missing them as he noticed too late that Voldemort had released Harry from possession.

Harry didn't even have time to turn his head and look to see where they had Apparated before his face was muffled by Voldemort's icy hand. Voldemort muttered an incantation like a shrill, melodic song as Harry drifted into darkness.