Hello people, this I guess is a very different story from what many of you have read...............................
So let me warn you first with a little bit of insight........
Harry has won the second war or so he thinks before he finds himself in another predicament he hadn't anticipated. Dumbledore thought that Voldemort only had the horcruxes as a key to immortality but he is sadly mistaken..........The battle had not been won after all............
Disclaimer; I do not absolutely own anything!
Just so you know, this is mostly DH compliant!
BABY RIDDLE
"I can't believe this Dumbledore!" said Harry as he paced up and down the former headmasters office.
He had finally destroyed all the horcruxes, had fought Voldemort in the final battle and won with the allegiance of the elder wand all to find out that Voldemort had not died at all. He had been re-born as a baby. As soon as Harry had defeated the Dark Lord he had gone up to the former Headmaster's office only to see a little new born child laying on the carpets. Harry had no doubt who it was the minute the child opened it's eyes and looked at Harry. He knew those eyes and his suspicions were affirmed when he looked at Dumbledore.
He hand instantly went to clutch his wand as he made his decision but the door slammed open and in came Hermione, Ginny, Ron and Draco. Hermione, Harry's girlfriend wondered what the little bundle on the floor was and why Harry was clutching his wand in his hand looking very angry and worried. The other occupants of the room had similar feelings but Hermione was the one to break the silence. "What's going on Harry?"
"Harry, it is not wise to kill him now" said Dumbledore looking at the child and at Harry piercingly. Harry looked at Dumbledore like he had gone mad. He hadn't gone through all of it for this to happen, damn it and Dumbledore should know better.
"What's going on?" Hermione asked a little louder this time. To her question Harry pointed to the bundle on the floor and uttered the one word that shocked every other person in the room. "Riddle" he said in a cold voice trying and failing to control his anger. The betrayal he felt was just too much to handle.
"You can't be saying the Riddle we........we........" Draco stuttered looking gobsmmacked. Malfoy had finally turned to the light side of the war after sixth year and as Dumbledore trusted him he had helped Harry, Hermione, Ron and Ginny to find the horcruxes and destroy them. Now the three men were as friendly as ever and it bothered Hermione whenever they talked about Quidditch.
"Yes, , this is Tom Marvolo Riddle" Professor Dumbledore said with finality and anxiety in his tone that suggested he wasn't really joking about it. All of them wished it was a weird trick someone was playing on them but it wasn't. Harry moved away to pace the room as Hermione neared the bundle and stooped down to take a look.
"God, he's so........." Hermione paused and shut her mouth thinking that telling baby Riddle looked so adorable wouldn't go over well with Harry. Something about the child seemed to be giving Hermione the intension to hold him and as if on cue the baby opened his eyes and looked at Hermione. She was amazed at how such a normal child so innocent could become tarnished by the world to be driven to become a monster. Hermione didn't see the careful way Dumbledore scrutinised her actions.
"How could this happen?" Harry implored to Dumbledore in the portrait.
"I am afraid, I do not know Harry but I know that killing the child is not an option"
"Why not?" Harry all but shouted.
"Because Voldemort probably knew this was going to happen and if he knew it means he is here to survive. I think it is best to not take any action until we're sure of how and why this happened"
Harry who was totally frustrated paced the room as he let out a string of curse words. The other occupants of the room hadn't quite recovered from the shock yet except Hermione who was still leaning over the child in wonder. She felt a relief that the child was not going to be killed and it wasn't logical at all, she observed. After all, it was the Dark Lord but she just couldn't find it in her to just kill the child.
"What do we do now?" asked Draco to the Professor. "Clearly we can't throw him in an orphanage, the things he could do..........."
"But there is no other way, we have to put him in an orphanage before we find out if killing him would be the right option" Ginny said finally recovering and moving close to Hermione who seemed to be insanely quiet which was uncharacteristic of her.
"No. Harry, I want you to take him" Dumbledore said in a completely calm tone that suggested he was not as disgruntled as he should be. Harry swivelled around to look at his professor and wondered for the second time if Dumbledore was sane.
"Why on earth would I take him?" Harry said with outrage, anger and hurt flashing through his green eyes.
"You are the only one fit to take care of him" Dumbledore implored a sort of despair and desperation in his voice Harry recognised from the time when he had to feed the potion to Dumbledore in sixth year.
"I can't ......." he said looking at Hermione for support but she was lost in the baby's eyes, the way it seemed to draw her and made her forget everything that was going on around her.
"He sure is a cute one" Ginny said and at that moment the child began to cry. It got louder and finally up to wailing when finally Hermione decided to pick him up and hold him in her hands. He quieted a bit but there was still tear tracks in the child's cheeks.
"Harry, Hermione, I trust no one else to take care of him. If needs persist, for a longer period than we have to" said Dumbledore looking solemn.
For the first time Hermione looked at Harry with the child in her arms. She seriously seemed to have lost her mind for she was actually liking the idea of keeping the child. "We could do it Harry, after all whom else can we trust?"
"But he showed up in the middle of nowhere. There's no way someone won't be suspicious" said Ron speaking for the first time.
"I think that could be covered up" said Ginny looking at the bundle in Hermione's hands which still hadn't stopped crying.
"Fine" Harry relented looking at Dumbledore "but he gives me one reason, one reason to kill him, then kill him I will" he said in a deadly calm voice before he left the headmasters office thoroughly frustrated.
"We could tell them all that this is Harry's child. After all…" Ginny said looking at Hermione "you are his girlfriend and you were in hiding last year so……" Ginny looked awkwardly from Hermione to Ron to Draco.
"Not to mention he looks exactly like Harry, except the eyes…" said Draco coming and taking a closer look at the still distraught child in Hermione's arms. "There should be no problem until he grows up enough to be recognized by one of the Professors here like…….."
"Slughorn" Ron finished for Draco. They all stood there in silence awkwardly wondering what to do and thinking about the predicament they were all in.
Tempted to comfort the child Hermione put her little finger in the child's mouth which the baby Dark Lord suckled with his little mouth. Hermione guessed the child must be pretty hungry.
"I am going to get him something to drink" she said and left with Ginny following her.
So……….how was it????, I know it's kinda weird but do any of you want me to continue?
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Bye all! Love you!
Jayne!
