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What = spells,
§Where§Parseltongue
Why = flashback
[] = Authors Note
Nephilim chapter 1: What I go to school For
All stories always have three things an end, middle and beginning and in the case of this story it begins on platform nine and ¾. There is an atmosphere of excitement as it is time to once again return to Hogwarts a school of magic, mystery and adventure. However there are two people travelling through the train who don't have excitement on their mind. The first of the duo was easily recognisable by his family traits of fiery red hair and a freckled complexion as well as blue eyes and a long nose. The second of the duo possessed rather noticeable bushy brown hair, brown eyes as well as rather large front teeth. This due were Ron Weasely and Hermione granger two parts of what some had called the golden trio a group of now 3rd year Gryffindors who were currently looking for the final member of the trio. Suddenly Hermione grabbed her male counterpart and began to drag him "I think I just saw harry" she stated as she dragged him through the train. Until finally they reached a cabin that they opened the door to and found there friend reading a book easily identifiable due to his untidy black hair, his mother's bright green eyes, and a lightning bolt-shaped scar on his forehead and a new addition of a necklace. He turned to face them with a smile "oh hey guys what's up" to which both responded "good harry how have you been" and "meh I've been ok".
After that the trio began to discuss events such as Ron's family's recent trip to Egypt, to Hermione's new cat crookshanks and how it seemed to hate scabbers. However eventually the conversation reached a currant topic many had been discussing "did you hear about Sirius Black escaping Azkaban". This turned into a discussion about the event such as the fact that the wall of Black's cell had exploded but it wasn't magical in nature, the strange sound prisoners had heard prior to the explosion and how he had apparently gone to ground. This took up most of the conversation until there was a chilling feeling throughout the train as liquid in drinks and condensation began to freeze until suddenly a hooded figure came passing down the passageway visible through the windows in the cabin doors. It opened the door and entered into the room floating tall as it began to face harry, however harry simply yawned at this and pointed his wand at the creature "you're annoying and I don't want you here anymore expecto patronum". And to the shock of Ron and Hermione a pure white stag burst out of Harry's wand slamming into the dementor forcing it out of the cabin into the passageway and out of sight.
After Ron and Hermione had recovered they stared at harry in shock and he just looked at them "what… is there something on my face?". After which Hermione learned forwards at Harry and started firing off questions "what was that? , what does it do?, how did you learn it?, can I learn it?". Harry in response started to shuffle back in his seat "in order of questions asked 1) a patronus 2) fights off dementors 3) I read it in a book just think of a happy memory and cast expecto patronum and 4) you should be able to do it". This continued for the rest of the trip until they finally arrived at the hogsmeade, where collected there materials and disembarked from the train. "Potter" a voice familiar to the trio made itself known, they turned to see Draco Malfoy and his loyal henchmen Crabbe and Goyle. "I hear a dementor went for you potter" he smirked "did you cry" he asked mockingly in his usual bravado. However unlike normal Harry simply smiled and walked up to Malfoy "hey Malfoy, guess what?", and before Malfoy could respond Harry's right foot shot forwards connecting with Malfoys crotch. As Malfoy fell to the ground in a fetal position (and possibly crying it was hard to tell) Harry smirked "that's what you spoilt brat" before heading back with his shocked friends to the thestral carriages. However halfway Harry turned around "oh and I heard there was a big fire at your mansion, I believe that's what's known as Karma" before getting on the carriages which then set off.
Later that night after the feast and announcements and everyone had retired to bed for the evening harry got out of bed. After quickly donning his cloak harry pulled out another artifact he had recently obtained from the twins (not that they knew that) and activated it the marauders map providing a full map. Stunning Scabbers on the way out harry traversed the halls avoiding filch and Norris until he reached his target, checking to map to check for Dumbledore and finding him at the kitchens Harry approached the gargoyle. "Sherbet Lemon" and the passage to the headmaster's office cleared. Passing through the office while removing the cloak harry made no sounds until he encountered the thing he was looking for. A glass cabinet containing a sword made of pure silver with a hilt with egg-sized rubies embedded in the hilt. After waving his wand while his face took an inquisitive look before smiling and opening the cabinet removing the sword and putting the hilt between his legs before pulling out from under the cloak a red satchel with a yellow star. Harry put his arm into the clearly magically enhanced bag up to his shoulder before bringing it back out revealing a replica of the sword which he quickly placed into the cabinet. Harry smirked while holding the sword up "well I've got the weaponised Deus ex Machina, this is going to get a lot easier". Then removing from the satchel some form of cloth that he wrapped round the sword before putting it in the satchel "well better go do what I came here to do" Harry.
Exiting the office Harry started to head out once again using the marauders map moving through the castle until he reached the left corridor on the seventh floor. Near the tapestry of Barnabus the barmy a clearly mentally damaged individual who had an odd fascination with trolls (then again he was a wizard and probably lacked the common sense to avoid such creatures). He paced in front of the wall opposite saying out load "I want to get inside" as he walked, until finally on the third pass a majestic looking door appeared. [I'm serious re-watch order of the phoenix that door is seriously detailed by hand that would take years]. Entering into the vast room full of junk people had abandoned due to either laziness or being involved in something illegal which were more than likely associated with all the blood stained weapons harry looked around. "Oh noooooo the rooms full of junk whatever will I do" he states sarcastically before reaching into the satchel and pulling out what people in the future would know as an iPhone before tapping a certain app which revealed what appeared to be a compass however instead of one of the points being red it was green. And so Harry traversed the room he travelled in the direction the green arrow pointed until finally he encountered his target. It resembled an old discolored tiara with a bird shape on the top pointed left with and a blue sapphire shaped like an oval in the center. Harry reached into the satchel and withdrew the sword quickly removing the cloth and grinning. "This never gets old" raising the sword in the air above the tiara "see you around tommy's soul jar" and the sword comes slashing down. There is a clang and a wail and Harry picked up the remains of the diadem.
"Such a shame, but I guess all of you artifacts can be saved" he claimed grabbing the string around his neck and pulling up revealing a gold ring inset with a black stone containing the peverall (supposed)coat of arms of a triangle, circle and line with a crack going right down the middle. "Meh" putting the necklace back "ok just got to go to the chamber to pick up a fang to send to Anubis so I can deal with this and get back home" Harry claimed standing back up. Turning to one of the walls in this maze of junk "yeah I'm not looking for the exit bombarda maxima" and with a massive explosion the way was clear for harry as he continued to travel through the maze blowing holes to clear the path until he reached the door. Donning the cloak once again and activating the map harry set off out the door into the halls once again. Harry continued throughout the castle until he reached the door of moaning myrtle's bathroom in which he entered the previous murder scene. Harry checked the room for any (living) people and when he found none he walked up to a certain sink with a snake engraved on a tap. Harry looked at the snake engraved tap "ok let's do this §open up you dumb entrance§", and with that the entrance to this chamber of prejudice and hatred opened, harry looked down at the depths of the entrance before reaching into the satchel and removing a pair of mirrored ski goggles and leaping down.
After reaching a bumpy and painful landing harry stood back up and travelled through the chamber towards his target. Soon after he entered into the main section of the chamber where the clearly decomposing remains of Slytherin's monster the basilisk, harry walked up to the skull of the creature where its sole remaining fang was still attached. Harry removed the sword of Gryffindor before facing the creature "sorry snake, I doubt you wanted to follow tom's or Slytherin's crazy plans but I need your fang" and with a slash the fang was removed which harry placed inside a container which resembled a Viking drinking horn with a lid. Harry then pulled out package paper and wrapped up the container before placing everything back in the satchel and removing his nimbus 2000 and flying back out of the chamber. After exiting back into the bathroom Harry placed his broom back in the satchel, donning his cloak and reactivating the map, heading off towards the owlery. Upon finally entering the owlery Harry immediately headed to Hedwig who flew to him landing on the windowsill next to him. "Ok girl" He states attaching the package to her "fly this to Anubis for me would you" to which she hoots and harry knows that's a yes before she takes flight headed towards Harry's contact Anubis. Harry smiled as Hedwig flew away "now that Anubis will be getting this it should make this a bit easier for me to finish this job and escape this world that common sense forgot".
With that done Harry donned the cloak once more and headed back towards the Gryffindor common room to head back to bed. However as he approached the fat lady he heard a voice "heading back to bed harry? My you have been busy tonight". Harry froze mid step before spinning on the heel of his foot in the direction of the voice to reveal Dumbledore, harry forced a smile "heeeey Professor, how are things". Dumbledore smiled "they are well, may I ask harry why you are out of bed exploring the castle on the first night of school" to which he smirked "usually you only do that later on in the year". Harry continued his forced smile "oh you know just thought I'd explore the castle a bit more" he claimed "you know how it is there's always something new to explore in this place, anyway got to go to bed now". Dumbledore was silent as Harry approached the fat lady Dumbledore spoke once again "and what exploration may I ask requires a sword made of goblin silver". Harry froze once again before grimacing "I should have known it was too easy when I took the sword, I'm guessing you turned off the safe guards" to which Dumbledore nodded clearly expecting an answer.
Harry sighed "this is going to be a long story and it's one that I don't wish to have eavesdroppers listening in, let's head to your office it'll probably be more secure than here" to which Dumbledore. They travelled towards the office in silence the only noise made by either being the password from Dumbledore to open the way. They entered into the office and Harry took a seat nearby Dumbledore's desk which the headmaster sat at his desk before looking at Harry "so Harry care to explain everything" to which Harry responded "ok I'll talk… but first you have to promise you won't wipe my memory". This confused Dumbledore but he agreed "ok" Harry said once again "you know how Voldemort was shown to be…whatever he was in year one" to which Dumbledore nodded. "And you know second year " Harry continued "where a 'memory' of himself caused that whole chamber of secrets…lets just call it problem" to which Dumbledore once again nodded. "Well" harry continued "these two events aren't isolated incidents nor are they only tied by Tommy", this uncaring attitude to Voldemort's clear superiority complex caused Dumbledore to smirk. "Guess how these two events are also connected guess" Dumbledore thought about it. From the description he had received from Harry it was clear that he wasn't a ghost, but them what was he if he wasn't that and what did it have to do with the diary a memory… "wait" Dumbledore thought "what if it wasn't a memory". He looked at Harry is the diary actually a memory to which Harry shook his head and Dumbledore returned to his thoughts, he moves through all of his vast knowledge of magic phenomena to think of something that matched these phenomena. Then suddenly an idea came to him a terrible, terrible idea "Horcrux" to which Harry smiled "exactly", this confirmation shook Dumbledore to his core the fact that Voldemort could be kept alive through such a monstrous way.
Then suddenly something else occurred to him "why did you need the sword then" to which Harry responded "to deal with one of them". Dumbledore's eyes widened at this "ONE of them" to which harry seemed nonplussed while scratching his ear "yeah he made six of them and three are left". Dumbledore looked at him "half of them have been destroyed" to which Harry smirked "yep the Diary, the diadem" dropping some pieces including the cracked gem on the desk". "And finally" Harry said while pulling his necklace up "this ring", Dumbledore seemed unnerved "if it's no longer a horcrux then why keep it around". Harry smirked "simple because it has other uses" looking at the ring "as shown by the symbol on this ring, pass me a piece of paper and I'll draw it so you can see the rings use". Dumbledore did so and as Harry inked up the page he smirked and he drew a triangle "the invisiblity cloak" he drew a line down the middle of the triangle "the elder wand" and he drew a circle "and the resurrection stone". Harry lifted up the ring and the cloak and Dumbledore did the same with his wand, both spoke at the same time "the deathly hallows" to which Harry smirked "exactly" before putting his hallows away.
"So Harry now that you have the sword now what?" Harry smiled before you caught me I collected the basilisk's fang and sent it to an acquaintance". Dumbledore was curious of this "who is this acquaintance" Harry smirked "I call him Anubis for secrecy, however he's just here as a backup in case I encounter problems but I should be able to deal with these soon and in exchange I do something for him". Harry's face had a sad look "hopefully when Voldemort has been shuffled off the mortal coil I'll be able to leave this stupid world of butchered latin, inbreeding, things that don't make sense, and people who clearly lack COMMON BLOODY SENSE", Dumbledore looked surprised at this "Harry you want to leave the Wizarding world. Harry face took the look of a deer frozen in the headlights of an 18 wheeler before sighing "ok confession time" Harry claimed "this is going to be hard to explain". Harry's face took an inquisitive look before reaching into the satchel and tapping a certain app, "have you ever heard of the show 'Quantum Leap' professor" to which Dumbledore shook his head. Harry continued "well it is a fascinating show about a man call Sam Becket who for lack of a better term 'leaps' into people" this clearly confused Dumbledore, "well essentially he takes a person's place and nobody can tell any difference even appearance wise between him and the person who he leaped into". Dumbledore however responded with "how does this relate to you and I assume the horcruxes as well". And harry sighed holding up the phone to Dumbledore and on it he could see an illustration of a boy that resembled Harry, a girl that resembled the Grainger girl who was Harry's friend riding a hippogriff in front of a full moon. And above this was I purple banner which said 'Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban' and below that in a rectangular oval were the words J.K. Rowling. "My name is Harold Williams and I think I've Quantum Leaped into a fictional world and the life of a fictional character". Dumbledore was shocked "how?" and Harry leaned back in his chair "that Albus…can I call you Albus?" to which Dumbledore nodded "that Albus is a story of de-aging, blackmail, theft, breaking into prison, breaking out of prison, arson, money making and saving an innocent man's life". Harry leaned forward in His chair "would you like to hear it" he said with a grin to which Dumbledore nodded "then let's begin".
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What I Did over the Summer Holidays