Harry Potter: Fight for the future
AN: I don't own any of the things that seem familiar, they belong to J.K.Rowling. I only own the plot and self created characters.
Chapter 1: decisions
It was the perfect weather outside, the sun was shining and no cloud was found in the blue sky. The Hogwarts express made it's way towards London.
On board of the express one student stood alone in his compartment. The boy had raven black hair and emerald green eyes. A thin lightning bolt shaped scar ran across his forehead. Tears escaping his eyes.
Harry Potter, the Boy who lived, was in no need of any company at the moment.
Just outside the door an young witch was staring at him.
The redhead sighed. She wanted to do something to comfort him. But she knew better than that. Harry needs nobody to comfort him. If she entered the compartment he would just yell at her that he was fine and didn't need anyone to comfort him.
Tears started to escape her eyes.
Harry suddenly heard a sob. He quickly turned around, just in time to see a flash of red hair disappearing.
"I'm sorry gin, but you can't stay with me" Harry said to himself.
Did I do the right thing when I broke up with her, Harry wondered to himself. She and her family are one of Voldemort's main targets after all.
In the next car a compartment door flew open.
Ginny Weasley threw herself at the bench and cried.
Hermione Granger, the smartest witch at Hogwarts, was for the first time in her life uncertain of what to do.
Ron Weasley had an even bigger problem in front of him. After all Ginny is his younger sister and Harry is his best mate.
But if Harry really is his best mate would he do anything to harm his little sister?
"Fuck it" Ron said to himself.
He stood up and left the compartment.
Ginny wanted to stop him but Hermione stopped him.
"Let him be Ginny" she said "he has to work this out for his own".
Just before he opened the compartment door to Harry's compartment Ron stopped.
Did he really want to know what happened between them. For all he knew this was just a silly quarrel between a couple, on the other side Harry might have seriously hurt Ginny.
Ron swallowed.
With shaking hands he opened the door and entered the compartment.
"Go away Ron" Harry said without even turning around.
"No I won't, I need to know what you did to Ginny" Ron answered.
But Harry didn't answer.
Ron reached out to Harry to turn him around.
Something he better didn't do.
Harry grabbed him and threw him out of the compartment.
"Leave me alone Ron I didn't do anything to Ginny" Harry shouted.
"Then why is she crying" Ron replied, his voice filled with anger.
"Why don't you ask her you stupid idiot, perhaps I might have done something right in my life for once" Harry shouted back.
Ron stood up.
The two wizards faced each other with wands drawn.
Harry raised his wand towards Ron's heart.
"I warn you Ronald Weasly get out of here now or I will kill you" Harry spoke with an icy tone.
"You don't have the guts Potter" Ron answered.
Quickly Harry shot a modified stunner to Ron.
Ron fell down in pain finally losing consciousness.
With a quick flick of his wand a note appeared.
After he attached the note to Ron he quickly banished Ron back towards his compartment.
Hermione and Ginny jumped out of their seats when they heard a loud thump against their door.
While shaking on their legs they opened the door to find Ron lying there.
Ginny took the note of Ron and read it aloud.
Ladies,
I send you back this immature prat.
I have warned him several times not to bother me but he ignored it.
Next time he won't be so lucky I will kill him like I told him.
For now he is just stunned but will have severe pains throughout the rest of the day as I have hit him with a special modified stunner.
Please keep him from doing anything stupid like this again
Harry.
The girls didn't know what to do.
Why did Harry threaten Ron with death, he was his best mate afterall.
Curious about what happened between Harry and Ron Hermione quickly enervated Ron to hear the story.
"Am I in heaven" Ron asked "cause I still feel like shit".
"No you're not Ron" Ginny answered "but next time you probably will".
Ron told the girls what happened at Harry's compartment.
Both girls were shocked to find out Harry did threaten to kill him.
"Gin please tell me what happened between you and Harry" Ron asked.
Ginny took a deep breath and told them the story.
After she finished both Ron and Hermione didn't know what to say
"We better leave him alone for a while" Ginny said.
"Yeah that's probably the best for now" Hermione answered.
The rest of the ride home was spent in total silence.
When they reached London Harry was the first to leave the train.
On the other side of the barrier his uncle was already waiting fro him.
"Well hello uncle Vernon I didn't knew you knew I came home today" Harry said in a semi cheerful voice.
"Cut the crap freak, we were sent a letter to inform us about your early arrival" Vernon answered.
They drove home in total silence.
That evening Harry was lying on his bed thinking of what to do now.
He couldn't go hunt the horcruxes on his own. Or could he.
His thinking was interrupted by a big flash in his room.
He quickly rolled of his bed and landed on his feet, wand ready.
To his surprise it was Fawkes who came to his room.
Harry noticed a parcel and a letter were attached to his leg.
He quickly removed them and read the letter.
Dear Harry,
If you read this it means I am no longer amongst the living.
Together with this note you will find a parcel which holds many vials filled with memories and a pensive.
The vial with number one is the first one you should look at as soon as possible, it explains about the vials from numbers 2 till 9.
The vials with the numbers 10 till 16 contain special memories about your parents. The vial with the number 17 contains a very dark and special memory.
It's a merged memory containing the memory of your father from the night you died merged with the one of your mother.
Please only look at that one when you truly are ready to relive that night in all it's horror.
Sincerely
Albus Dumbledore.
Harry felt a tear making it's way down his face.
Because he just lacked anything else to do he poured the vial number one in the pensive and entered it.
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Harry found himself standing in Dumbledore's office.
"Ah a good evening Harry" Dumbledore spoke.
Harry quickly turned around to face the old man.
"Please take a seat right there" Dumbledore asked him "If you do I'll at least be looking at you during this conversation".
A bit nervous Harry sat down on the indicated chair.
The room was just as he remembered.
"I have told you everything about Lord Voldemort there is to know my dear boy" Dumbledore said "everything except one thing"
This caught Harry's attention.
"Tom isn't an ordinary wizard Harry" Dumbledore spoke in a tired tone "he's a mage".
"A what" Harry asked.
"A mage Harry" Dumbledore said "a mage is a wizard who has other abilities as well. A mage controls 4 elements he can use for both offensive and defensive cause."
Harry stood there with his mouth wide open.
"A mage controls fire earth wind and fire" Dumbledore continued "both me and Tom are mages, but we didn't use our powers while fighting in public".
Harry didn't understand it.
"Mages are quite rare these days so it would be a big fuzz for the Daily prophet as it was known there are 3 mages left at this time speaking" Dumbledore continued.
Harry just nodded.
"But as this is just a memory you are viewing it means that in the real time there are only 2 mages left" Dumbledore said.
Harry started thinking of who could be the last mage.
"The last mage, the one I haven't mentioned before is you Harry" Dumbledore said.
Harry couldn't believe it.
"How impossible it sounds you are my boy" Dumbledore continued "The vials 2 till 9 contain battles between mages from the past. Use them to learn what a mage can do. After each battle the memory continues here in my office where I explain you about the things you've seen in the battle".
Harry still couldn't believe what Dumbledore was saying.
"One more thing you should know about mages Harry" Dumbledore said softly "a mage is able to detect horcruxes and destroy them with ease if he can reach for them".
Now this is something handy Harry tough.
"But now our time here has ended my dear boy, one day we will meet again" Dumbledore said.
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Harry just kept staring at the wall for what seemed like hours.
Knocking at his window brought him back to reality.
He turned around to see Hedwig sitting there with a letter.
"What already a letter, who would write me already" Harry said to himself.
As he took the letter he immediately recognised Ginny's handwriting.
"I should have known" Harry smiled.
Dear Harry,
Thank you letting Ron live back on the train, I know he didn't deserve it.
I respect the fact that you want some time alone, but you really have to come over to the burrow before august 3rd.
As you might remember that's my birthday, and I really want you hear for my birthday.
Besides Bill's wedding is the day after and mum will kill you if you don't show up.
I hope to see you soon
Love
Ginny.
Harry just smiled.
They respect the fact that he wants some time alone to think.
And he was invited over for Ginny's birthday and the Weasley wedding.
He grabbed some parchment and a quill and quickly wrote his response.
As he watched Hedwig flying away he felt sleep taking over him.
"Well sleep won't kill me and I'll have a busy day tomorrow" Harry said to the walls.
For the first time in a long time Harry slept peacefully.
Ginny Weasley just couldn't sleep. All she did was wondering why Harry acted like that on the train.
While staring out of the window she noticed a figure approaching from the sky.
"Just another bat" she told to herself.
But quickly she realised it was not a bat. It was an owl. An owl heading for her window.
Suddenly she recognised the owl to be Hedwig.
She threw away the blankets and opened the window.
Hedwig landed on the windowsill and reached out her left leg.
Ginny took the note and Hedwig returned to her master.
Thank you, I'll be delighted to come over to the burrow august 2nd
That was al the note said.
But to Ginny it meant the world.
She fell asleep that night with the biggest smile on her face since long.
The next morning found Harry looking all over his schoolbooks trying to find out more about mages.
But they were just briefly mentioned in his history book.
"I'll have to ask Hermione some day if she knows more about it" Harry said to himself.
He poured vial number 2 down in the pensive.
"There is only one way to find out now" Harry said while he entered the pensive.
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Harry noticed he was in some kind of duelling arena.
Two men faced each other.
Harry could already tell these two had real power and wouldn't be defeated easily.
The first man had long black hair and blue eyes. He was dressed in a red battle outfit with his wand in a holster at his right side.
The other man looked a bit older with his silver hair and black eyes. His battle tunic was green and he also had his wand in a holster at his right side.
They just stood there staring at the other.
Harry could feel the power between these two men.
Suddenly a bell rang and the two men entered a battle pose, wands still in their holster.
"This an all out fight, killing your opponent is allowed but is not required for victory" A voice said.
"Victory can be achieved by 3 ways." The voice continued "1 you can disable the opponent 2 your opponent can give up or 3 you can kill your opponent".
Suddenly the bell rang again.
The silver haired man quickly drew his wand made a 360 spin and fired off a killing curse.
"Wow that was a short fight" Harry said to himself.
But the black haired man just reacted by stomping his feet on the ground.
A large stone wall appeared in front of him just before the killing curse could hit him.
The wall shattered from the impact of the killing curse.
The black haired man just punched in the air and the pointy fragments of the stone wall flew towards the other man.
But he saw it coming. He jumped up while twisting and spinning his body in the air and dodged each piece with ease.
But the black haired man was already a step ahead of him and he stormed at his opponent with a weird looking sword.
The handle looked like it was made of stone but the blade itself was made of ice.
Just before the blade hit him the silver haired man conjured a staff of stone.
They kept swinging at the other or blocking the others attacks.
They didn't keep it to just their weapons, the also kicked and punched towards the other.
Both men swung an attack towards their opponent with all their strength.
The weapons hit each other mid air and shattered.
The black haired man took a huge leap backwards, Harry could see the dust flying around from where he jumped.
The silver haired man didn't hesitate and brought his right hand in front of him.
Suddenly a large beam of fire flew towards the black haired man.
The black haired man raised his hands in front of him.
"is he going to push it back or something" Harry said to himself.
As the firebeam reached the black haired man it suddenly crashed into a wall of water.
Harry just stared as the steam made it's way to freedom.
The silver haired man now had the upper hand. And it seemed he wasn't letting go of it easily.
Harry noticed both of them were heavily sweating.
The silver haired man was using all his strength to breach the shield of the other while the black haired man used everything he could to hold the fire away from him.
Suddenly the black haired man smiled.
With a huge amount of power he started to bring his shield of water closer to his opponent.
The silver haired man didn't knew what was happening.
But when the shield was just inches away from his own hand he started to use more power to breach it.
Harry couldn't believe his eyes. If this is what mages are about he surely would like to learn it
But on the other hand if Voldemort could do such things he was in for major troubles.
Suddenly the black haired man closed his eyes, it looked like he was entering some kind of meditation status.
But he actually started to use his air powers again and brought the steam close to his opponents face.
Suddenly a scream drew Harry's attention.
The silver haired man didn't expect the steam and now his face was burned.
The black haired man didn't hesitate and threw his opponent in the air and while he was mid air smashed him back towards the ground.
All of this with just simple use of his air powers.
The silver haired man hit the ground hard and bounced a few times but he was about to land on his feet again.
But the black haired man had his wand out and fired a powerful disarming spell at his opponent who got knocked against a rock wall.
Before he could regain himself he was already stunned.
Suddenly everything started to blur.
When everything was back in focus he noticed he was back in Dumbledore's office.
"So Harry I hope you enjoyed the fight between the two gentlemen" Dumbledore said.
"The man in red was Godric Gryffindor, and as you might have guessed by now his opponent was Salazar Slytherin." Dumbledore continued.
Harry just nodded.
"You will have noticed they used martial arts and weapons together with magic" Dumbledore said "a combination of those is deadlier than any spell can be".
"As you know magic is all about concentration" Dumbledore continued "by using martial arts or a weapon you make it harder for your opponent to concentrate".
"Now you probably wonder where they did get their weapons as they entered the fight with just their wands, and summoned weapons look better than theirs" Dumbledore spoke.
"they used their elemental powers to create the weapons" Dumbledore kept ranting "Godric's sword was made out of two elements the handle was made out of stone and the blade was ice, which is frozen water as you know, Salazar's staff was made out of stone".
"These elemental weapons have the advantage they don't disappear if you lose your concentration" Dumbledore said.
"this memory is nearly at it's end, when you return Fawkes will have brought in another parcel with books." Dumbledore said. "These books will aid you in your study to learn your powers".
"I'm afraid I have to give you homework once again Harry" Dumbledore said in an almost irritated tone. "You must read 'A history of mages' and 'The power of the elements' before you view the second memory".
"Oh and one last thing Harry" Dumbledore said. "Godric and Salazar were even in power, Godric won this fight only because he kept thinking clear. Remember that my boy."
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Harry found himself in his room once again.
He noticed the parcel and cursed.
"It seems I have a lot of studying to do today" he said to himself.
AN: Well what do you think, the beginning is kept the same only I've written it out a little better, and as you might notice I made some major changes to the story. But don't worry the original plotline still exists, only I have to explain some things first before I can continue with it.
Until next time, please review I try to answer each single review.