The Magic of the Cosmos
By Crazy Vulcan and Demented Dementor
Disclaimer: Harry Potter is the intellectual property of J.K. Rowling. Star Trek is the intellectual property of Gene Roddenbery and Paramount Pictures. All original characters, ships, settings, and worlds are of our own mad design.
Chapter 1: The last Horcrux
Oxford school, known throughout the world as one of the finest institutions for learning. Many young intellects regularly come to seek admittance. So on that day no one raised an eyebrow when three 17-year-old friends were walking on a tour of the school. They were three ordinary looking teenagers, one with unruly black hair. He wouldn't look out of place playing guitar in a coffee shop. His two companions were a man with red hair, and a girl with frizzy brown. The red headed boy turn to the black haired one and said, "Harry, explain to me why we are looking for the last horcrux inside a muggle school." Instead the brown haired girl turned and said.
"Honestly Ronald, weren't you listening the first 20 times I said, in Hogwarts a History that Rowena Ravenclaw loved learning so much that she founded Oxford for muggles!"
"I heard you the first time Hermione!" said Ron, "something about some stupid room full of books"
"It's called a LIBRARY Ron!"
"Guys, please" said Harry "we just want to find the library without revealing the magical world."
"Sorry Harry" muttered Ron and Hermione who at least had the decency to look sheepish. The three friends resumed their walk in silence.
"This is it!" exclaimed Hermione causing her two companions to turn and look. They stood in a courtyard, which seemed to have a garden of some sorts, filled with lots of flowers and other things that smelled pretty. In the center of the garden stood a weathered gazebo.
"I don't see any books!" said Ron who was thoroughly annoyed.
"That's because it's underground you twit! Rowena Ravenclaw wasn't about to put a library full of magical book in plain view of muggles!" said Hermione as she walked into the gazebo followed closely be Harry and Ron. She looked around before cautiously drawing her wand and firing a cutting charm at a vine covered pillar. As the vines fell away they revealed a carving of a raven in the pillar. Hermione approached and placed her wand to the carving. "Knowledge is power." She muttered.
Suddenly with a low grinding sound the center of the gazebo with Hermione Ron and Harry on it slowly began to descend straight into the earth. After what seemed like hours (although it was only a couple of minutes) the platform finally reached its end at a long corridor torches barely giving off a pale light. With no end in sight and knowing that they can always return to the platform later, the three friends begin the long walk down the corridor.
After they had walked for an hour Harry hears a noise, like a fluttering of wings. "Guys," said Harry, "I don't think we're alone."
"Perhaps it's just bats." Said Hermione.
"Or… S-Spiders" squeaked Ron.
"Or it could be man eating ravens" offered Harry
"Honestly Harry," snaps Hermione "what would make you think of a stupid idea like that!"
Harry points past Ron and Hermione down the way they had already come and says "that"
Hermione and Ron slowly turn to look where Harry's finger is pointing to see thousands of red eyes slowly gaining on them. Hemione always the voice of reason amongst her friends says, "I think we should start running."
"You think," said Ron sarcasm dripping from his voice before he turned and began to run as fast as he could. Harry and Hermione quickly followed after him. The three ran along occasionally stopping to send a curse at the pack of birds, which had become visible. The birds, which appeared to be half rotted, surged forward their prey merely a couple of feet ahead of them. Hemione points her wand to the ceiling and shouts out "REDUCTO!" Ruble begins to pour down into the tunnel the jagged rocks crushing the birds and trapping the few that survive on the other side. The three friends turned to see a large golden door in front of them two ravens carved into the sides their talons poised as if to strike any whom were deemed unworthy of the treasure that lay behind the door. Upon the door was engraved a scripture of some sort in an unknown script. Ron walks up to the door and heaves his shoulder into it.
"Well that's just great," said Ron, "How are you supposed to get into a room with no door knob."
"Du'no" said Harry, "Perhaps it has something to do with the writing up there."
"But Harry that's not English how are we supposed to read it?" said Ron.
Hermione rolls her eyes "it says…"
What is always sought
Yet always around
Never complete
Yet easily found
"How did you know that!" said Ron annoyed at once again being shown up.
"Honestly Ronald I said you should drop Divination and take Ancient Runes instead." Said Hermione with a roll of her eyes.
"When did you take Ancient Runes?" said Ron puzzled.
"In my THIRD year with the TIME TURNER!" shouted Hermione.
"Knowledge" said Harry who by this point was very good at blocking out Ron and Hermiones arguments.
"What?" said Hermione.
"Knowledge" repeated Harry "everyone seeks it, yet it's everywhere, but you can't know everything because there's always something to learn, but you can find it everywhere." And as he finished the door slowly opened.
Ron turns to Harry "Harry, that's bloody brilliant." Said Ron before he turned to Hermione "Ha, Harry figured it out before you! Who's the smart one of the group now!"
"This isn't a competition Ronald we are trying to save the world." Said Hermione before she walked through the door followed by Harry and Ron.
It was at this time that the three friends got their first look at the library.
"Bloody hell" said Ron "you could hold the quidditch world cup in here and still have tons of room." And for once, Ron was right.
"Ron watch you language, and quit thinking about quidditch!" snapped Hermione although she was distracted by the number of books and Harry was holding her back from grabbing them off of the shelf and sitting down to read. The library was circular in design and had concentric shelves moving outward from the center like ripples in a lake. The Ceiling was clearly twice as high as the great hall in Hogwarts and the shelves reached up right too it and they were packed with books.
"Dear God it could be anywhere!" Said Harry "I hope it's not like the diary or else we never would find it!"
"Sure we would," said Ron helpfully before pointing his wand at the nearest shelf of books. "Incendio" a jet of fire burst from his wand igniting the shelf into flames.
"RON! NO!" shouted Hermione extinguishing the flames with a wave of her wand before she knocked his to the floor fully prepared to beat the living pulp out of him. Harry pulled Hermione off of Ron and they began to walk down the shelves.
Hermione turned to Ron and said in an exasperated voice. "Besides Ronald Voldemort would be certain to be able to find his horcrux without burning down the library."
"You've got a Point Hermione," said Ron messaging his jaw.
"Perhaps it's in the center. Knowing Voldemort he's vain enough to place it where everyone could see." navigating their way through the libraries shelves they had nearly reached the center of the room when off to the side they heard a cackle and the insane voice of Beltrix Lestrange.
"Oh its icky Pottykins and his friends. So you think that you can destroy my master's soul Potty. Well you will just have to get past me!" she cackled and pointed her wand towards Potter.
"Not her again" mutters Harry as he dives out of the way of a sectusemptra. Books begin to be shred to pieces the precious knowledge fluttering to the floor.
"NOT THE BOOKS!" shouts Hermione sending a purple curse at Belatrix whom knocks it backward with ease. Hermione drops to the ground as a curse flies towards her striking the books turning them into a purple sludge that eats away at the shelf. Harry hiding behind a bookshelf begins to make a complicated wand pattern and a lengthy incantation as Ron steps forwards to confront Belatrix.
"Ah so the little weasel runt wants to play," cackled the insane witch. Spells began to fly back and forth between the two and for a moment Ron held his own. One curse slips through his defenses however. Lightning hits him in the legs causing Ron to fall to the ground in pain. "Don't you see" shrieked Belatrix "with the aid of my holy master none can defeat me!" She prepared to finish Ron off cackling her head off as Harry finished the spell that he had been performing all that time. Belatrix is so absorbed in killing Ron off that she fails to notice the rumble of Books flying off of their shelves into a deadly wave until its too late. She didn't notice her imminent death until the first book hit her in the head. Slowly she raised her head to see two waves of books charging at her cutting her off from escape. A scream of defiance and rage was cut off as thousands of books fell on top of her crushing her to death.
The three recovered themselves and crawled over the makeshift grave of books continuing their way towards the center. When they arrived at last at their destination they gazed upon a simple pair of reading glasses sitting atop of a marble white podium. As they slowly approach the podium Ron asks, "do you think this is it." As if on cue Harry's scar begins to burn madly he grabs his head in pain and a cry escapes his lips.
"Pretty sure it is Ron" Harry manages to get out through clenched teeth. Forcing back the pain Harry reaches into his robes and pulls out a small vile of black liquid. Harry stares at it in reflection, "If only Dumbledor realized the potentials of Basilisk venom," he whispered. Without a second thought Harry pulls out the stopper and dumps the Basilisk venom onto the glasses. A loud shriek fills the chamber as the glasses slowly begin to melt finally violently exploding. The three stare around at the crater where once the reading glasses of Rowena Ravenclaw sat. Harry breathed a sigh of relief and began to turn to leave when the sounds of slow rhythmic applause echo through the chamber. From behind a bookcase stepped Lord Voldemort clapping.
"I must say Potter you've gotten farther then I thought." Said Voldemort in a voice that reminded the three of a snake's hiss. Ron and Hermione this being their first time actually seeing the Dark Lord could only look on in horror.
"Yeah well Tom you've proven to have a unique skill in underestimating me." Said Harry in a bored tone of voice. Voldemorts eyes turned to narrow slits in anger. Even though Voldemort could no longer be recognized as human Harry managed to touch a nerve.
"How dare you call me by my filthy muggle fathers name!" Voldemort spat, and the duel begins. Flashes of spells fly back and forth as both combatants show their skill in the art of wizardry. Finally Voldemort shouts at Harry "I MAY NOT KNOW THE PROPHECY FULLY BUT I KNOW THAT ONLY YOU CAN KILL ME. YOUR FRIENDS HAVE NO PART IN THIS! AVADA KEDAVERA!"
"HERMIONE MOVE!" Ron shouts as he shoves Hermione behind the pillar where Ravenclaws glasses once lay. The green light hits the podium and shatters it causing a shock wave of magic to knock out both Hermione and Ron. Harry steps between the fallen bodies of his friends and the creature that stands before him. Voldemort in a last effort to kill Harry forgoes anything fancy and just throws all of his magic at the Potter brat. Harry now thoroughly pissed off decides to do the same thing. The two forces of energy in the form of a blast of green and red light collide in the center of the chamber, as with all the times that the wands meet they linked. However an anomaly that had never happened before happened. The two forces both similar and different at the same time began to merge forming a rift. Both streams of energy turned a brilliant white and began to expand outward because of the sheer power it began to engulf everything. First books of various sizes began to fly towards the rift. With each additional item the rift grew larger and its pull grew. Then to Harry's horror Hermione and Ron began to slide towards the rift. Finally Harry felt himself begin to be dragged towards the rift. Because the floor was smooth marble he couldn't grab anything as his speed increased. Harry was vaguely aware of Voldemorts screams of horror as he himself was dragged towards the rift. Finally Harry was dragged into the rift itself being swallowed completely and he saw a brilliant flash of white light and knew no more.