The story takes place just after Cedric Diggory is killed by Peter Pettigrew (Wormtail) and Harry is held captive by the statue above Thomas Riddle's grave. As Lord Voldemort relishes the feeling of his new body, he summons his Death Eaters through the Dark Mark on Wormtail's left arm. After reprimanding the Death Eaters that arrived, Voldemort turns towards Harry…
Harry Potter and the Darkness Within
Chapter 01
"Harry, oh I had almost forgotten that you were here." Lord Voldemort spoke sarcastically. "Standing on the bones of my father. I'd introduce you but word has it your almost as famous as me these days." Turning to his Death Eaters Lord Voldemort continues "The boy-who-lived," quickly turning yet again towards Harry and bringing his face mere inches away from Harry's "How lies have fed your legend Harry, should I reveal what happened that night 13 years ago? Should I divulge how I truly lost my powers?" Walking now towards his Death Eaters which backed away, Lord Voldemort continues "It was love, you see when dear sweet Lily Potter gave her life for her only son she provided the ultimate protection… I couldn't touch him… It was old magic something I should have foreseen, but no matter… no matter. Things have changed!" Stepping quickly towards Harry, Voldemort extends his arm and places his finger onto Harry's Lightning Bolt scar "I can touch you…now!" Harry immediately starts to scream as the pain through the contact of Voldemort's touch and his scar quickly becomes excruciating.
Voldemort satisfied with the pain that he has now inflicted upon Harry, merely by touching him, tries to remove his finger from Harry's forehead. His finger refuses to terminate the physical connection it has with Harry's forehead, suddenly feeling as if his power is slipping away from him and being sucked into Harry.
Harry at this point has stopped screaming and with bewildered eyes stares at Voldemort.
"What are you doing to me boy!" Voldemort asks Harry with a somewhat calm voice.
"What am I doing to you? What are you doing to me?" Harry replies.
Before they could utter another word they both are rendered unconscious by forces unknown. Voldemort's finger finally letting go of Harry's forehead after lingering there for a few seconds as he collapsed to the ground, Harry still being held up by the statue slumped over the scythe unconsciously. The Death Eaters present stood there in utter shock. Wormtail being the only one to react ran towards his master, kneeling down at his master's side Wormtail notices that Voldemort isn't breathing and places his index finger and middle finger on Voldemort's neck unable to detect a pulse.
"He's dead! Our master Voldemort is dead!" Wormtail shouted as he knelt beside Voldemort's body to the rest of the Death Eaters who are still standing around too shocked at what had just transpired to react.
Wormtail stood up and faced Harry, who still seemed unconscious. As he took a step towards Harry, Wormtail was taken aback as Harry snaps his head up and looks directly in Wormtail's eyes. Suddenly the scythe of the statue released Harry and he landed on the ground looking a bit dazed but quite sure of his surroundings.
One of the Death Eaters present brought his wand up and started to utter the killing curse at Harry, but as soon as the first syllable of the curse left the Death Eaters mouth he went flying backwards and collided with a tombstone of one of the graves. In shock and amazement everyone present turned and stared at the figure of Harry Potter with his left hand raised and his right hand pressed against his forehead. Harry had just invoked wandless magic.
"I truly hope no one else will try to be stupid enough to try that again, I sense that at present there is no one here strong enough who can defeat me, plus I got a splitting headache so would you all be so kind as to surrender without fighting me?" Harry calmly asked as he looked towards all the Death Eaters present, the air around Harry was crackling with raw magic. "Now that Voldemort is out of the picture, I wonder what I should do to the rest of you lot?" Harry stumbled around a couple of steps regaining his balance. "Perhaps I should just put an end to the lot of you and save myself the trouble of having to hunt you down when you cause trouble again? Or perhaps I should take you lot directly to the ministry and tell them what has happened here today?" Harry looked slowly at every Death Eater present then added "Well it is your choice."
In unition every Death Eater present raised his and her wand towards Harry, they had made their choice. Harry raised left his hand and spoke clearly "TEMPUS SISTITE!" the spell took effect immediately and all Death Eaters present stopped dead in their tracks, some of the Death Eaters wands were even starting to glow green as the killing curse had begun to manifest at the tip of their wands.
Harry was taken aback quite suddenly at the undeniable urge to kill every single one of them, never in his life had he felt such a compulsion to end a life as what he felt now, but on the bright side his head so no longer throbbing, Harry raised his right hand towards the group of Death Eaters uttering a spell "CONSTRINGO" immediately all hands and feet were magically bound by a light see-through blue chain. Harry walked up to the first Death Eater, "This man is called Avery… How did I know that?" Harry puzzlingly asked himself. As he looked at the rest of the Death Eaters he discovered that he recognized all of them, standing next to Avery was Nott Sr, next to him was Walden Macnair and beside him was Goyle Sr, Crabbe Sr and of course there was his biggest pain in the ass, father of that obnoxious Slytherin Lucius Malfoy.
"Perhaps it would be for the best if I removed their wands so that they don't get any funny ideas." Harry spoke out loud to himself. Starting by Avery he removed their wands and released the time spell on each wand one at a time, Malfoy's and Nott's wands erupted sickening green light from their tips as the AVADA KADAVRA spell was released and destroying the tombstones in the curses path.
Once Harry was satisfied that the CONSTRINGO spell bindings were secure Harry took a few steps back, raising his left hand he removed the time spell that had been put on all the Death Eaters, "TEMPUS SISTITE FINITE INCANTATUM".
The Death Eaters were utterly confused, for them mere seconds ago they had raised their wands at Harry Potter, but now some magical chain bound them all, their wands were also gone.
"What have you done to us?" asked a very angry Lucius Malfoy. "When I get myself freed Potter, you are going to regret the day that you were…" and silence fell across his lips.
"SILENTIUM" Harry responded to Lucius' statement as he flicked his hand in Lucius' general direction, "I've so wanted to do that for so long Lucius, and do you know that you never shut up? Hmmm? If I was you I wouldn't push my luck any further Lucius, or any of the rest if you Death Eaters."
Harry then walked up to Cedric's dead body, knelt down beside him and placed his hand upon Cedric's chest and whispered as tears rolled down his cheeks "I'm so sorry Cedric, it's my fault that you're dead…" Harry cried silently for a little while, raising his head Harry's eyes went blank and contorted in concentration.
One of the Death Eaters shouted out, "Aw look the mighty Potter cannot handle the death of a single insignificant wizard…" the Death Eater could not finish what she wanted to say because at that instant Harry's blank and concentrated look disappeared he raised his hand in the direction of the Death Eater that just spoke, uttering "ERUMPO".
There was no scream of pain from the female Death Eater lips, only the sound of her flesh and bone ripping, and tearing apart in every possible direction, showering all who where around her; stunned and shocked silence fell across all the remaining Death Eaters lips.
"I warned you all to keep quiet, I'm done talking. If you're tired of this life just tell me and I shall end it for you right now!" Harry replied quite angrily not even looking at his prisoners. Harry returned his hand to Cedric's chest the blank look returned also to his eyes and Harry uttered a spell barely above a whisper "PROFICUUS PROFICISOR" a white light emerged from his hand and engulfed Cedric's body covering him from head to toe. Colour returned to Cedric's face, his eyes where returning from their lost and deadly vacant stare, suddenly Cedric lifted himself off the ground and took a deep breath. The Death Eaters were speechless no one ever it the history of the magical world has ever been able to return someone from the dead, but here before them now stands a young wizard the mortal enemy of their fallen master who has just done the impossible.
"Harry, what just happened?" Cedric asked quite shocked. "The last thing I remember is the AVADA KADAVRA curse hitting me."
"Cedric… Well… umm, how can I put this… you were technically dead, well ok stone cold dead in fact. I somehow brought you back." Harry replied quite unsure of himself.
"Harry… How did…? How were you able to do something that no one in the wizarding world has ever been able to do?" Cedric asked quite bewildered.
"Cedric you know as much as I do at this present moment. But right now we need to deliver these Death Eaters to the proper authorities." Harry responded pointing behind Cedric. "We going to use the port key that brought us here in the first place the Tri-Wizard Cup, grab that end of the chain please and I'll summon the port key so we can head back."
"Sure thing Harry." Cedric replied as he walked over towards the chain that was lying on the ground, "Harry what happened here?"
"Honestly Cedric… I think it best if you don't ask, you did just come back from the dead remember?" Harry answered as Cedric picked up the end of the chain and walked towards Harry. With Cedric standing right behind him and holding his shoulder Harry lifted his hand in the direction of the Tri-Wizard Cup, without an incantation or his wand the cup raced through the air and into Harry's hand. As Harry felt the familiar pull of the port key he and Cedric arrived instantaneously back to the beginning of the third and final task of the tournament everyone present burst into cheering when they saw that the Hogwarts champions had arrived safe and sound, but all to soon the cheering died down as they saw that there were more than two people present that had arrived from the third task, and that they were Death Eaters.
All Aurours and Hogwarts staff present quickly withdrew their wands and pointed them directly at the Death Eaters.
"Easy there people, they are no longer a threat, I removed their wands." Harry spoke out at all the wand wielders, as Cedric let the chain fall to the ground.
"Harry my boy by Merlin's beard what is going on?" Professor Dumbledore asked.
"Professor I think that here isn't the time or the place to discuss what has happened, but there is one more thing that I have to do…" and with saying that Harry pulls out his wand spinning around on the spot and pointing it at Alastor Moody, a split second later before anyone could even react Harry utters an incantation "VERUM REVELARE PER SE", the spell hitting Moody square in the chest.
As Alastor Moody reverts back to his original form, the form of Barty Crouch Jr, on lookers are stunned as what had just happened and before Barty Crouch can escape another incantation flies though the air and hits him again squarely in the chest "STUPEFY!" dropping Barty like a sack of potatoes.
"Professor you will find the real Alastor Moody has been held captive in a chest inside his own office. Now if you will excuse me I have one more spell to lift or our not so dear friend Lucius Malfoy will never be able to confess to the crimes that he has committed." Harry walks past Professor Dumbledore and heads straight for Lucius Malfoy, raising his wand at Lucius Harry speaks the incantation "TANDEMSILENTIUM". As Harry turns around to walk away Lucius speaks up.
"Mark my words Harry Potter! You will regret killing my master, as long as there is breath in my lungs and blood in my veins I will take person pleasure in killing you!"
Harry turns around and quietly laughs at what Lucius had to say stepping closer to Lucius Harry lowers his voice "Then Lucius I wait for the day that you shall try, because I can guarantee you that I will be the one that will kill you."
Turning around and walking directly
"Professor I think it's time that we return to your office and I give you a briefing as to what has happened tonight, but I would like Hermione, Ron and Ginny present."
"Of course Harry let us be on our way then."
Hi there to you who has decided to read this attempt of mine at a fanfiction of Harry Potter, I hope you like what you have read and if you would be so kind as to comment any advice would be grateful (oh and please if you want to diss my work please to so in a civilized manner, thank you.)
Disclamer:
I do not own Harry Potter or any other characters created by J.K. Rowling, as this is strictly a fanfiction.
Reference:
1. TEMPUS SISTITE - Latin for Stop Time
2. CONSTRINGO - Latin for Binding
3. SILENTIUM - Latin for Silence
4. ERUMPO - Latin for Erupt / Explode
5. PROFICUUS PROFICISOR - Latin for Resurrection / Back to life
6. VERUM REVELARE PER SE - Latin for To Reveal
7. TANDEMSILENTIUM - Latin for End Silence
(Perhaps not the best choices on my part but they worked for me)