Secrets In The Dark
A Stormy Beginning
AN: Hey guys, I've been playing around with the idea of a Harry Potter story for a while now and this is the outcome. This time I have a Beta in the form of my best buddy so hopefully any mistakes I make will be caught lol. Anyway onto other news, I haven't given up on my Naruto story but I think for now that this will be my primary focus. I hope you like it and don't forget to R&R.
It was a dark, moonless night in the town of Little Whinging. All around the gentle, melancholy sounds of crickets and various, nocturnal creatures filled the vast nothingness of the darkened village. The clouds of the night drifted lazily across the muted sky. A ghastly breeze blew through the night, chilling everything it came across down to their cores. As if to make things worse a cold, remorseless rain pelted from the heavens, just as the tears fell from a raven haired youth. A youth with emerald eyes devoid of emotion and a cursed lightning bolt scar. This youth was none other then Harry Potter, The Boy Who Lived.
Harry Potter hadn't had the best life by far. From an early age his life had been filled with pain, heartache, mistreatment, and so much more. It seemed that his life was destined to be hell, and hell of the worst sort. October 31st would see the first of his many near death incounters, at only four months old dear little Harry would meet his greatest enemy, the darkest of wizards, Lord Voldemort. Due to a prophecy made by a complete stranger, the Dark Lord took matters into his own hands and stormed the house of James and Lilly Potter, Harry's mother and father. Both had refused to join Voldemort, but the Dark Lord was merciful, and he had no desire to shed magical blood wastefully. So begging both parents to move aside and let him kill their young son, he grew angry and violent when they denied him his wishes and he slew them where they stood, it was Harry's mother however that would be the Dark Lord's undoing. For by sacrificing herself to safe her only child she had enacted and ancient and powerful magic that the Dark Lord knew not of. It was love.
Rearing back and unleashing his curse that would bring the very untimely death of little Harry, Voldemort burst apart as his soul was wrenched from his body and he was no more but a shade in this world, a shadow, a forgotten memory. But yet he lived on, for he was a cunning Lord and he had taken the necessary steps in planning his survival. Harry would grow up with his distant relatives, not distant by blood, or by marriage, but distant by choice. After the attack at his home in Godric's Hollow, he was extracted from the wreckage and in trusted to his muggle (all none magical folk) relatives, his aunt, uncle, and cousin.
Skipping eleven years, ahead Harry would learn the truth about his parents untimely death from a giant, and not to a small child, a literal, well half giant, named Hagrid. After the world shattering explaination about his parents and his heritage Harry had departed the very night with Hagrid and hadn't returned until after the school year was finished. However while at school and making new friends such as Hermione Granger and Ronald Weasley, he had many adventures and happenings that consequentally were life endangering as well. From sorting, to quidditch, to almost swallowing a Golden Snitch, to finally hunting for the Sorcerer's stone and meeting Voldemort face to back of a professor's head! After a long speech from the snake himself he found himself victim to Lilly's protection a second time and disappeared as dust into the wind.
Next came his second year of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardy. He discovered his ability to speak to snakes was looked at in a very poor light, especially considering the recent student attacks going on. Finding a journal in the girl's lavatory, he unknowingly found a former possession of Lord Voldemort. Months later and several more students being petrified to a stony visage, Harry discovered the truth. In the same girl's bathroom was the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets, Salazar Slytherin's most hidden and sought after dwellings. Finding Ginny, the youngest of the Weasley family, unconscience and near dead he again found himself facing the Dark Lord, except this time as a teenager much like himself. Going by his true name of Tom Marvolo Riddle he unleashed Slytherin's ancient beast, the Basilisk.
Finding himself in yet another near death encounter Harry fearlessly fought the beast tooth to sword. Wielding the noble sword of Gryfindor Harry overcame the beast and saved Ginny, thus adding to his blooming legend and his mounting popularity. His next adventure would also be one of the most emotionally trying times in his life. His third year at Hogwarts there was a breakout at the wizard prison, Azkaban. Sirius Black was a convicted murder…and best friend of Harry's father, James.
Having had enough of his relatives, Harry jumped aboard the "Knight Bus" and was whisked off to London. Once arriving at Hogwarts he finds security to be tightened by Dementors, guards of Azkaban, with such heartache in his young life he was like a beacon to the Dementors. Dementors essentially suck all the happiness out of you, and if you aren't careful, your soul as well. Having already met the Dementors on the train Harry sought out help from Professor R.J. Lupin, who, unkowningly to him would teach help him more then any other teacher ever would and would later go on to be an eccentric uncle of sorts.
In December of third year Harry found out the terrible truth. Sirius Black was none other then his godfather, and even worse the reason his parents were dead. Over-hearing professor McGonagall and Madame Rosmerta in the Three Broomsticks, was how he became privy to the truth. After swearing to kill Sirius of he ever met him Harry began to sink lower and lower in hatred and depression. Finally they met! After saving Buckbeak the hippogriff from being killed, Ron was dragged under the Whomping Willow and into the Shrieking Shack by a black dog.
Following both the dog and Ron, Harry and Hermione found out the real truth about Sirius. He was indeed Harry's parent's best friend, but he never sold the out to Voldemort, no, that was another childhood friend, Peter Pettigrew. After the group left the shack with the revealed Pettigrew as the former, Scabbers the rat (the Weasley family pet) they also made the discovery, well the students made the discovery of Lupin's furry problem. Quite simply he is a werewolf. Sirius turned back into his dog form and they battled it out with Sirius being badly wounded.
After a quick trip in the past with just Harry and Hermione, Harry saved his godfather's life from over 200 Dementors by forming a corporeal patronus, and freeing him from being recaptured by the Ministry of Magic. Next came Harry's fourth year of Hogwarts, and with it came to Triwizard Cup. The Triwizard Cup brought together the schools of Durmstrang, Beauxbatons and Hogwarts to compete against each other in three magical contests. However thanks to some deceivingly dark magic Hogwarts gained another contestant in the form of Harry Potter. Competing to honor their school and show-off their magical prowess, Viktor Krum the Durmstrang champion, Fleur Delacour the Beauxbatons champion, and Cedric Diggory and Harry for the Hogwarts champions went through the three trial fairly equally and at the end it came down to Hogwarts vs. Hogwarts. With a bout of morality Harry insisted that both he and Cedric take the Triwizard Cup together and when they did they were surprised to find that the cup was a portkey and soon Harry witnessed the second murder in his life, Cedric's.
Trapped against the tomb of his enemy's father, Harry became part of an arcane ritual to give the Dark Lord a body again. "Bone of the father, unknowingly given, you will renew your son. Flesh of the servant, willingly sacrificed, you will revive your master. Blood of the enemy, forcibly taken, you will resurrect your foe." Spoke Pettigrew. And within seconds Lord Voldemort arose from the cauldron with a new body and the blood protection of Lilly Potter very weakened. With a duel that showed the true connection of their wands, Harry managed to hold Voldemort off just long enough to summon the portkey back to him and Cedric's dead body and they were gone.
Year five, the past year, and by far the most emotionally passing year to date. Harry has become aware of the connection between the Dark Lord and himself. Was tortured by a cruel and unusaul teacher, found himself able to view things from the mind of the Dark Lord himself. And mounted a full scale invasion of the Ministry of Magic. Late at night in the Gryffindor male dormitries, Harry was having yet another nightmare, except this was different, this was coming from Voldemort. He tossed and turned as he watched his enemy torture his godfather with the cruciatus curse. So making up his mind to travel to the Ministry, Harry was accompanied by several of his friends. When they arrived they found the Hall of Prophecies where Harry had his visions of Voldemort torturing Sirius to be completely desserted, minus the few dozen Death Eaters or so that turned up to retrieve the prophecy about Harry and Voldemort… As the battle began the friends paired off and tried to help each other, however all seemed lost until the Order of the Phoenix, the Light's secret group that had fought against Voldemort in his first rise to power, joined in and the fighting began anew.
All was going well until she showed up. Bellatrix Lestrange, Voldemort's left-hand woman, cousin to Sirius, and undoubtly one of the most stunning women that Harry had ever seen in his life! That was until she sent a red bolt of light straight into Sirius and blasted him through the mysterious veil and never to be seen again. Turning tail and running, Bellatrix weaved her way through the Ministry and taunted Harry into following her. Upon catching her and attempting to cruciate her, he found himself unable to do so and was soon facing Lord Voldemort yet again. Fearing the worst Harry faced Voldemort with the all the determination he could muster, but it for for naught. Dumbledore had arrived! To Harry witnessing two of the greatest duelists fight each other was a spectacular fight to behold, spell for spell, charm for charm, and even curse for curse was fired back and forth between the two.
During the battle, Bellatrix had slipped away and escaped using the Floo Network, and just as she dissapeared, Voldemort did as well, only to reappear in the most unlikely of places, Harry. He had possessed Harry. Both feeling the excruiating pain, Voldemort was quickly cast from Harry's body and vanished without a single trace of him left behind. Leaving the Minisrty and going back to school under the watchful eye of his loving headmaster, Harry was soon overcome with grief and rage, and soon terror as he was told just what the prophecy said for him and Voldemort.
"The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord approaches ... born to those who have thrice defied him, born as the seventh month dies ... and the Dark Lord will mark him as his equal, but he will have power the Dark Lord knows not ... and either must die at the hand of the other for neither can live while the other survives ... the one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord will be born as the seventh month dies ..."
Harry was speechless, not fully understanding the prophecy, but understanding enough to be highly concerened and upset he left the headmaster's office and soon returned "home" to his relatives and into the current statte he was in, depressed, heart broken, and angry. As a pecular wave of anger washed over him a clap of lightning flashed through the sky, lighting up the land as if it were day. And as Harry sat looking out his bedroom window, he took notice of a figure looking up at him from the lawn, a figure with lucious midnight locks, appealingly feminine curves, and above all else, intelligent chocolate brown eyes. Harry only needed a second to realize who this was, it was his godfather's killer, Bellatrix Lestrange herself.