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All of my fanfictions will be Harry Potter-related, because HP is awesome. Okay? Good, let's start.
Harry Potter and the Leader of the Light
Chapter 1: Discovery
Silence reigned supreme over the car owned by the Dursley family as Harry Potter, the "Boy-Who-Lived", lay deep in depressing thoughts. Earlier that year, he had went to the Department of Mysteries after seeing a vision of Sirius, his godfather, being tortured, only to find out that it was a trap for Lord Voldemort to acquire the prophecy about him and Harry that he so desperately desired.
Voldemort. "That fucking monster", Harry thought. "If he hadn't planted that bloody vision in my mind then Sirius would be…" Harry's thoughts returned back to the devastation of losing Sirius, the closest thing he had to a family, and seeing him fall through the veil after being hit by a stunning spell from Bellatrix Lestrange. He couldn't shift his thoughts away from what had happened to Sirius. As a silent tear rolled down his cheek, he was interrupted by a shout from his Uncle. "BOY! GET OUT OF THE CAR NOW OR WE'LL LOCK YOU INSIDE!", Vernon shouted. Harry looked outside the window and saw that the car had arrived at Number Four, Privet Drive, his "home", if he could even call it that. He knew that his true home was the Burrow, and that Privet Drive wasn't his home.
Silently, he opened the car door and got out of the car, retrieving his trunk and Hedwig's cage from the car boot. He walked through the open door of Number Four, Privet Drive, and was wondering about whether Vernon would treat him better due to the threats that the Order had made at the train platform, when he heard the door being slammed shut and a hand at the collar of his shirt. Before he could do anything to resist, he was face-to-face with Vernon, who looked angrier than ever.
"YOU FREAK, IF YOU THINK YOU CAN THREATEN MY FAMILY THEN YOU HAVE A LOT TO LEARN! YOU ARE GOING TO LOCK THAT RUDDY OWL AWAY AND ONLY TAKE IT OUT WHEN I SAY SO, AND YOU ARE GOING TO TELL THOSE FREAKS THAT WE TREATED YOU PERFECTLY!", Vernon shouted. Harry knew that the Order would notice if something was up, and simply said, "No, Uncle. I am going to tell them the truth. If you treat me badly, those "freak" friends of mine are going to show up at your doorstep and leave you screaming in pain."
"WHAT? YOU LITTLE BITCH, IS THAT A THREAT?", Vernon shouted, and then without any warning, brought a right hook to Harry's face, which connected directly with his nose. A distinct breaking of bones could be heard, and Harry fell backwards, blood starting to cover the lower part of his face. Vernon shouted, "WELL? IS IT?", and went in to punch Harry again, when Harry heard someone shout "STUPEFY!" and saw a flash of red light, which connected with Vernon's back and thrown him into the wall next to Harry. Harry looked up from his stare at Vernon's unconscious body to see a fuming Tonks and a grim Mad-eye Moody.
Tonks gasped at the sight of Harry's broken and bloodied nose, while Moody stared at Petunia, who was shouting at them and asking what they did to her "poor husband". Moody glared at Petunia for a few seconds and eventually pointed his wand at her and muttered "Silencio", and Petunia sat back into her chair, angry, after she realized she couldn't speak. Tonks quickly ran up to Harry and crouched down, then pointed her wand at his nose and muttered "Episkey", and Harry felt his nose grow hot and then cool down. He raised a hand up to his nose and felt it, and noticed that it felt a lot better, but still slightly numb. Tonks casted a cleaning charm on Harry's face and stood up, still fuming.
She asked, "What the hell was he doing?", pointing her wand at Vernon. Harry then explained what happened, and at the end of it, Tonks had calmed down a lot, but was still angry. Moody walked up to Tonks and said, "Well, we originally came here to bring you a message, but it looks like we also ended up saving you. Anyway, we came here to take you away from this horrible place.", swivelling his magical eye around to check for any remaining "threats" in the house. Harry, however, was ecstatic, and almost shouted "I GET TO LEAVE THIS PLACE? WOOHOO!".
Moody sighed and said "Unfortunately, you're leaving for the wrong reason. The blood wards protecting Privet Drive have collapsed. Ideally, we should leave as soon as possible,", he paused, swivelling his magical eye around again, "because it won't be long before the Death Eaters realize what has happened. If we get you out of here now, they won't have any further reason to attack the weaker, but still remaining wards that protect this home.". Harry understood and nodded, and on cue, Tonks pulled out a feather. "Emergency portkey from Dumbledore. Illegal, of course, but he still made one as soon as he realized that our hero was in trouble.", she said, smirking at Harry. Harry laughed and placed a finger on the feather. "Home.", he heard Tonks mutter, and Harry felt the tug behind his navel as he was whisked away from Number Four, Privet Drive.
Harry felt the ground below his feet again, and looked around, instantly noticing that he was at The Burrow. All of his thoughts and depression about Sirius had been removed at this, and he knew about that, but he also knew that he would have to confront his memories of what happened sooner or later. Sighing, he noticed Tonks beckoning him towards the kitchen, and followed. As soon as he walked in, he noticed that the whole of the Order, except for the slimy git, Snape, were gathered around the table, looking very grim. Dumbledore was also present, and if possible, he looked even grimmer than the others. Harry remembered instantly why they all looked grim: the blood wards at Privet Drive had fallen.
Harry was the first to speak, still standing in the doorway. "So, Professor Dumbledore, how did the blood wards at Privet Drive fall?", he asked, and Dumbledore sighed. He said, "It is time that I told you all about an old man's mistake. When configuring the blood wards, I thought that they would always be safe and un-destroyable. However, this was my mistake. I never realized that, Harry, as the last descendant of the Potter bloodline, and, in blood terms, the Head of the Potter Family, would be able to destroy the blood wards using his thoughts. It is my mistake that, when Voldemort attempted to possess Harry for a few seconds, I did not check the blood wards straight away to see if he had destroyed the Blood wards. It appears that Voldemort managed to destroy the blood wards when he possessed Harry shortly, and has been trying to wait for a perfect time to strike and take down the remaining wards,", the group shuddered at the mention of Voldemort's name, twice, but Moody spoke up and interrupted Dumbledore, saying "Dumbledore, do you not have an object which recorded the status of Privet Drive's blood wards?".
Dumbledore sighed and said "No, the object you speak of went missing from my office about a month before the incident. As it was in my office in Hogwarts, which only Order members knew the password to at the time, and that it was the only object that could track the blood wards as only one such object can be made per blood ward, I regret to inform you that we have a traitor in the Order. Severus Snape is more loyal to the Dark than to the Light."
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