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"Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become endless." – Jamie Paolinetti
Chapter 1 - Canon
Voldemort chuckled under his breath, gradually climbing to an outright evil laughter. This was perfect! He had finally found a way to rid himself of Harry Potter! 'Fantastic. Utterly impossible to predict and yet so simple! How could I have not thought of this before?' Voldemort smiled, and his followers at his feet shivered in fear. This twisted form of a smile was as grotesque, terrifying and utterly evil as the man who wore it.
Voldemort gracefully stood and held out his arms as if to embrace the crowd of Death Eaters. "My faithful followers! Today is the turning point in the war! At long last, our dream of purity shall become reality. Those muggle lovers will fall, and we shall rule!" The Death Eaters cheered.
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Colin Creevy burst into the kitchen of the Burrow, panting hard and attempting to speak at the same time but just ended up making a bunch of wheezing noises. Everyone in the room looked up at his entrance, some even pulling their wands, was it a Death Eater in disguise?
Colin took a deep breath of air and forced out the secret phrase, "The phoenix will fly over Hogwarts for eternity." The wands where lowered and Colin sat in one of the empty seats. Harry was at the head of the table with McGonagall and Arthur discussing the outstretched map of Europe, little animated figures in black robes and big 'X's for eyes signifying the Death Eaters, figures in orange with capes and mighty expressions meant to be the Order and little men wearing purple robes and a green hat showing the Ministry, all courtesy of Fred and George. The rest of the assembled order was drinking tea, or the more hard core members, coffee. Some important figures, Remus, Ron, Bill, the Twins, were missing, off on missions throughout the continent.
Harry looked at Colin worriedly, concerned about what was so important that he had to run to get them the information. "What is it Colin?"
Colin cleared his throat as everyone waited silently, panting out his message, "Voldemort plans to go back in time and kill you!" There were shocked gasps but Colin continued, "I was doing my usual watch when I overheard some Slytherin's talking in the astronomy tower. Apparently all the Death Eaters and Death Eaters in training have to be at stone hedge by midnight tonight!"
Chatter rose up as everyone talked to their neighbour. Harry tuned them out and looked Colin calmly in the eye, "Did you hear why they were meeting tonight?"
Colin shook his head. "That's all I heard before Mrs. Norris scared them off."
McGonagall gasped. "Tonight is the autumn equinox!"
Without a moment of hesitation, Harry nodded and ordered a handful of the Order figurines to Stone Hedge. "We will meet them there."
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Voldemort gazed over the assembled Death Eaters with a smirk of satisfaction. Every last one of his army had shown, now he can begin. An emotion similar to joy twisted in his stomach, evil, sadistic joy but joy all the same, and he ordered them all into the circle of the stones centuries old. The magical realm of Stone Hedge was different from the Muggle as only wizards could enter and its magical properties on the solstices and equinoxes were immense. He would need the combined magic of his followers and the solstice in order to complete the spell.
He had been going through the books in his library when he came across a book in parseltongue. It had many spells in it, but one in particular was a spell to travel through time without the aid of the traceable time turners and be able to get back without having to wait for the present year to return through the normal course of time.
Voldemort waved his wand in a complicated pattern "Voluntarius Vitualamen!"
A light blue circle etched its way around the stones, encircling the crowd of kneeling Death Eaters, intricate runes inside of the line glowed brightly. Some of the Death Eaters shifted nervously in the back, they were the newest members and were uneasy at this display of magic. The front row, however were perfectly still, heads bent in respect for their master, though not even they knew what was coming.
Voldemort didn't even bother reassuring his followers of their safety, for there was none, and began the spell.
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Harry crouched behind a rock a distance from the glowing circle of rock with Neville and Ron at his side. They had arrived at eleven to watch each of the Dark side arrive. Before the blue light had circled them, there had been over 1000 Death Eaters counted in attendance. This worried the Order, they knew there were many Dark supporters, just never had they expected so many.
'Voldemort must be threatening people to join and giving them no other choice. That means that there are innocents in there.' Harry frowned, 'That means more caution on our part.'
When the blue light appeared, Harry had ordered everyone to stay where they were in case it was a trap. And as he watched Voldemort begin a complicated spell, Harry couldn't hear the exact words because they were too far away, he was glad they hadn't gone in. The runes alongside the stones where turning a bloody red as the Death Eaters in the back rows began to scream and thrash as though they were under the cruciatus curse. Silver threads of mist rose from their bodies and flowed into Voldemort in a steady stream. The same mist gathered on the stones as the time grew closer to midnight and that too filtered slowly into Voldemort.
Harry suddenly felt a red hot searing in his veins and bit his tongue to control a gasp that wanted to escape. What was this pain? Beads of sweat ran down Harry's face and Ron looked over to him looking worried. "What's wrong Harry?"
Harry could only shook his head and force his eyes open, to see Voldemort tense in pain as well but still moving his wand and speaking the incantation. What spell was that? And how could it be so strong that Harry himself could feel it through their link? He lowered his head to the ground as the pain increased and couldn't contain a groan of pain as the spell grew stronger. By now even the front row of the Death Eaters were shaking and moaning. Ron and Neville hovered over Harry, unsure as to what ailed him.
As the clock on Harry's wrist struck midnight the power pulsed and Harry and Voldemort screamed in agony. The blood red circle around Stone Hedge spun at first slowly then building to a blur as it tightened around Voldemort. Voldemort and Harry jerked as the ring disappeared under Voldemort's robes and Harry fell limp, the pain gone. In the pain's place was a feeling of immense energy that pulsed in Harry's very being, cooling the burns he felt in his body. Harry opened his robe and lifted the sweater beneath. There, was the ring with the runes, etched into his skin in black all around his midsection, one rune circling his navel. He looked up to see all of the Death eaters lying on the ground, not moving. Voldemort stood and brushed off his robes. He smirked as he flexed his hand in admiration of his own power and chuckled under his breath. At last he could kill the brat! He focused on the memory of that far away night on Halloween, raising his wand once more to being a new spell.
Harry bolted to his feet and ran towards the Stone Hedge. This was his chance to kill Voldemort! Without any of his followers around he only had to worry about Voldemort himself, no matter how much stronger he now was. He hopped over the bodies of his fellow students in the back and heard Voldemort hiss a spell in parseltongue. A spell in parseltongue? Is that even possible? Harry felt a tug around his middle similar to a portkey as Voldemort finished the spell and they disappeared from the clearing.