Title: The
Journey of a Lifetime
Author: Wizard
Disclaimer: This
story does not belong to me. It belongs to J.K. Rowling, one of the richest
women in the United Kingdom.
This piece is not being used to make money. It is purely for entertainment of me,
the author, and anything you find offensive in this piece, please do not let it
affect your decision to buy the Harry Potter books. They truly are wonderful.
Summary: This
starts at the end of the Goblet of Fire (GoF). After his fourth year at Hogwarts
School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Harry Potter comes back to the Dursleys for
the summer vacation. Strange things happen there. The Dursleys become nicer. At
least, Dudley does. Harry gets a snake and work, and
things go downhill from there. The life of Harry Potter, a young boy, a
teenager, a wizard, a hero, as he finds himself. Friends turn enemies and
enemies turn friends; what is in store for the fifteen-year-old Boy-Who-Lived?
Pairings: HP/OC
(H/OC), HG/RW (R/Hr), GW/DM (G/D)
Rating: PG-13
[Review if you believe the rating should be changed.]
The Journey of a Lifetime
Chapter 1 – Revelations
The night was chilly. The slight breeze was not enough to sway the tombstones of the graveyard in Little Hangleton. It was a peaceful night, apart from the chilliness, of course. This was a night that residents of towns around the world would put on their winter jackets and go for a night out at a party, their breath condensing into visible water droplets in the frigid night air.
But the night was too calm for a certain Tom Marvolo Riddle. No one knew if this man was first named Thomas, and Tom was just a nickname. Hell, hardly anyone knew who Tom was. Oh, don't get me wrong. Almost everyone in the wizarding world knew who Tom was, but not many knew that the real name of the feared dark wizard Voldemort was really Riddle.
I can hear what you are saying right now. Wizarding world? you wonder. What is this wizarding world you speak of? I know of no wizarding world. It is only something that you find in the movies and science fiction novels.
Well, congratulations. You are almost completely wrong. You might not know of any wizarding world, and it is found in movies and science fiction novels, but that is not the only place you will discover it. The whole world around you is magic. Everything you touch, everything you breathe, everything you hear.
What is the definition of magic? That is a simple question with no clear answer. Some define magic as raw energy that some individuals are able to harness. Those individuals are known as witches and wizards, and the rest are known as Muggles; those that cannot use the energy and potential within them. Others define magic as not being within organisms, but around them, flowing as air and water. Witches and wizards are able to call on this external magic to do their bidding with ordinary sticks with a center of huge magical energy, namely the body part of a magical creature such as a phoenix feather. These are wands.
Probably the closest definition of the word 'magic' is all that is around you, both things you can see and cannot see, and all that is within you and on you, both things you can see and cannot see. In essence, everything is magic. You are pure magic. So am I. With this definition, witches and wizards are kinds of gods and goddesses, able to harness the most fundamental building block of the universe: magic to do their bidding.
During a time in our history, ordinary people like us viewed these 'godly' beings as being dangerous. Perhaps they had only seen the destructive force that controlled magic could do, or they were afraid of those different from themselves, but the Muggles of that time despised magic. Witches and wizards were tormented and slaughtered. They could not defend themselves for the ability to harness magic was not well studied back then. Spells were only capable of washing dishes and levitating a broom or summoning one. Dark wizards of that age had discovered 'attack spells'. These were destructive forces that Muggles saw. At the time, the Muggles outnumbered the magic folk greatly. It seemed that all traces of there ever being the ability to harness magic for good would be lost in great expanses of time.
A few hundred years passed. Magic had not advanced much. But four young children would be about to change that. They met when they were in high school, four brilliant young minds working on a philosophy project when they discovered their powers. Hours of research into old texts and journals made them believe that they were able to harness magic to do their bidding. The children, now teenagers and soon to be adults, learned all they could about magic, its origin and how to use it. They modified spells and created new ones. Fifteen years later, their modified magic was the most powerful it would ever be. The four, Godric Gryffindor, Rowena Ravenclaw, Salazar Slytherin, and Helga Hufflepuff, did not want all their hard work to go to waste, so they decided together to build a school that taught magic. Hogwarts, they called it.
After many years of work, Hogwarts was made and magic was taught and passed down the generations. Children were encouraged, as it was rare to ever have a squib. Over the course of decades, centuries, millennia, magic grew and evolved. Ancient and powerful spells were lost. Spells were dampened in intensity. But more people were able to harness this magic.
Many other magical schools formed, following the steps of Hogwarts. The most successful of them all are Durmstrang and Beauxbaton.
And so after many years of dark wizards, after many years of hard work and determination, after many years of change, our story begins.
Tom Marvolo Riddle was a student at Hogwarts. The most brilliant of them all, some say. He was sweet and caring, an orphan, but resourceful and well-liked. No one knows why he turned evil, but after seven years of schooling at what is known as the finest magic school in all of England, he indulged in dangerous transformations and consorted with the most sinister of people, and resurfaced as Lord Voldemort, unrecognizable and dangerous. His goal was to gain immortality and then, world domination.
For thirteen years, people all over the world were terrified of him. Then, one day, when Voldemort visited Godric's Hollow intending to kill the three Potters, he lost his power. After killing both Lily and James Potter, he had turned his wand on the one-year-old boy, Harry. The killing curse, Avada Kedavra, rebounded off of Harry, giving Harry a lightning bolt shaped scar on his forehead, made him famous, and caused Voldemort to lose all of his power. But Voldemort was still alive, a spirit, but alive. He wasn't human enough to die.
He had waited for this day, after facing Potter for two years; he had waited for this day, where he would bring down Harry Potter once and for all, and show that he was indeed the best. Lord Voldemort smiled. His loyal servant at Hogwarts had prepared for this. Harry would arrive tonight. Voldemort wanted Harry to feel welcome. He was a good rival, weak, but knew how to survive. Tom Marvolo Riddle raised his wand, spoke a few well-chosen words, and at once, swirling gusts of wind raced around the graveyard. No one outside could see in. The wind would alter everything. Now all that was left to do was to wait…
To Be Continued...Wizard
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