Effervescence
Prologue: Two Heads Are Better Than One
Summary: Harry Potter defeated the Dark Lord Voldemort when he was 18, yet witches and wizards are still afraid to speak his name. But there were still some Death Eaters left after Voldemort's defeat. After six hundred years they are rising again, and nobody can stop them. Except maybe Harry Potter.
Disclaimer: Guess what! I don't own Harry Potter, it's characters or sceneries, etc, etc, etc. I do own the new characters (I'm sure you'll be able to spot them) and anything you don't recognise. Yay for me! Oh yeah, I also don't own the quotes at the start of the chapters, they're Horoscopes from 'The Onion'. If you haven't been there, you should, it's hilarious!
While it's often true that two heads are better than one, the shattered skull of your adversary will provide no help in coming up with a place to bury the body.
1998
Two cloaked men stood whispering to each other in the centre of a large circular room, surrounded by unconscious men and women lying on the ground.
"Hurry up and say the spell!"
"It's not that easy! The wand movements are really complicated!"
"Well if you don't hurry up then Malfoy's gonna have your head."
"I know, I know! Sheesh."
The second cloaked man began a long incantation as the first kept an eye on the sleeping figures. It had taken the two of them ages just coming up with a way to infiltrate the Order of the Phoenix, and before that it had taken years to find a spell that would kill all of them at once. Sure, it took a while to cast, but it was quicker than running around the room casting killing curses at each individual person.
After a few minutes of chanting the second man finished the spell with a flourish of his wand.
"Finally! How long does it take to kill them? We have a time limit you know."
Just then, every person in the room seized up and burst into thousands of coloured lights that slowly floated up to the ceiling then disappeared.
"Thank Merlin that worked! I was getting worried for a second, and I wouldn't want to have to face Malfoy without killing every single person in here."
"Of course it worked! Do you know how long I spent researching…" the man trailed off as he watched nine large lights of different colours float to different spaces around the room.
"Is that supposed to happen?" the other asked as the lights expanded.
"I… don't know…"
First, closest to the entrance, the pink light expanded to become a large, pink-tinged bubble. Inside the bubble was an otter, just floating in the centre as though it was unconscious. It's fur was being rustled slightly as though it was underwater.
Next was an orange-tinged one, which expanded to hold a lion, it's mane drifting in the same manner as the otter's fur. After that came a yellow-tinged bubble with a pale-grey wolf, and a green bubble with a cat of some description.
The one after the cat was probably the oddest, as the purple bubble held nothing. Or at least, nothing they could see.
Then there was a red bubble with a fox, a blue bubble with a Peregrine Falcon, a black and silver bubble with a Snow Leopard, and a gold and silver bubble with a White Tiger.
"Shit! What the hell are they?" the first man yelled.
"Um, maybe they are animagus'? There must be something in the spell that kept them alive or something…"
"You mean to tell me, that you spent two years researching this spell, and you didn't come across a side-effect like this!"
"Well…"
"And didn't Potter have an animagus form! What if we've failed to kill Potter! Or the traitor!"
"Well, they can't be any of these, Potter had a Dark Pegasus for an animagus form and Snape's was this black bird of some sort."
The first man fell on his knees. "Praise Merlin!"
"Anyway, can't we just kill them now?"
The other stood back up and nodded before walking over to the otter's bubble. "Avada Kedavra!"
The green curse hurtled for the bubble and hit the surface. There was a flash of light as the bubble absorbed the curse into it, then a flash of the same green light as the bubble hurled the curse back at the man who I'm sure we've established is a Death Eater.
The cloaked man's eyes widened and he dropped to the floor, the curse going just over his head.
"Bloody hell!" he exclaimed, quickly getting back up again. "I'm getting out of here."
"But what about the animagus'? We'll be in deep shit with Malfoy when he finds out we didn't kill everyone!"
"If he finds out, you mean."
"What?"
"Think about it, nobody is ever gonna get back in here, it's got the best security anywhere. We only got in by chance. Eventually this place will be forgotten, and we'll never have to worry about it again. There is no way that Malfoy will find out about this unless one of us tells him. And we aren't gonna tell him, are we?"
"Nope, not a word."
With that, the two Death Eaters apparated out of the room.
They were right about almost everything. Draco Malfoy never found out that they hadn't killed nine people. The place was forgotten over time. They never worried about it again.
However, people would get back in…
A/N
I should probablybe working on Rhapsody at the moment, but I have hit a total blank! I have plot for a couple of chapters ahead, but nothing for the chapter I'm working on... Oh well, I'll get around to it...
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