Author's Note: I do not own the rights to Harry Potter. The credit goes to the wonderfully talented J.K. Rowling. I am only writing a story based around the wonderful beloved characters.
Rating: M for later chapters!
Parings: TR/MM RL/HG
Warning: student/teacher relationship. Hermione's 18 due to her use of the time turner. Remus is in his mid-thirties! Reminder witches and wizards have longer life spans than muggles.
Missing Pieces
Prelude:
Tom Riddle was a very powerful wizard who could trace his ancestors back to Salzar Slytherin He followed in Salzar's foot steps and studied in the dark arts. The deputy headmaster Albus Dumbledore was fearful that the boy would turn dark like so many others in the Slytherin house. But Tom was shifty about Dumbledore. The young wizard had found the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets on the second floor of the girls bathroom. Tom used the large open area as to study and practice spells. But down in the chamber he also found a Basilsk. The great snake left the chamber killing a student. So Tom quickly sealed the chamber and didn't return.
The more Tom studied the dark arts the more his body craved it. Than when he left the school he slow morphed into the Dark Lord Voldemort, and he began to gain followers known as death eaters. He heard of a prophecy and the only way to defuse the problem was to get rid of it.
Voldemort went after the Potter family home on October 31, 1981. Then when baby Harry survived and Voldemort had vanished the world was safe.
Voldemort returned during Harry's fourth year at Hogwarts and was stronger than before through his connection with the boy who lived. He used that to his advantage.
Albus Dumbledore, the headmaster at Hogwarts kept Harry safe by helping him any way possible. But when the young wizard and his friends went to the Department of Mysteries to save his godfather, Sirius Black and found the prophecy. Than a gang of death eaters showed up and a battle broke out which ended in Sirius's death.
Professor Dumbledore kept on reminding Harry that he must destroy Voldemort. He did want the dark wizard gone but he also didn't want to become a murder. Dumbledore didn't care he wanted him gone at all costs.
Hermione Granger, one of Harry's best friends wonder if their was missing pieces to the prophecy. She worked feverishly trying to find a spell to rid of Voldemort, but in the process allow Tom Riddle to live. Remus Lupin her ex-professor and friend helped the witch. He also believed that the prophecy had some missing pieces, but their search for a spell was fruitless.
The battle was fought on the grounds of Hogwarts. The Dark Lord and the boy who lived faced each other. But the strange thing was that their wands did not connect like they did in the grave yard during Harry's fourth year. He only figured that Voldemort didn't have time to react to the killing curse. Harry was thinking please only vanish the Dark Lord before cast the killing curse and an ear piercing scream rang through out the grounds and black smoke appeared. When the smoke cleared Harry saw a man with salt/pepper hair, pale skin and looked very weak. But before he could check on the man Albus pulled him away from the body, and the weak or maybe dead man laid near the forest forgotten.
Sirius Black was found in the Depart of Mysteries a week later alive and well to the shock of the wizarding world. The charges were dropped and he was a free man. Now living at Grimmuald Place with is godson and childhood Remus Lupin.
Then two weeks later Hermione's parents were killed in a car wreak and Sirius asked the witch to move in with them. She quickly took him up on the offer.
But Harry's mind wondered back to the man that laid before him on the battle field. And why did Dumbledore pull him away from the body so quickly. And if Tom Riddle was alive who would take care of a fallen Dark Lord?