Seen and Unforeseen
Summary: A Muggle family wanting a child accidentally clones the deceased Lord Voldemort. The magic community must learn the ways of this science, but will the former Lord Voldemort show in this child? For DarkAngelSnapeLover's Chapter Challenge.
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Ever since Voldemort was defeated, I had been afraid. I remembered the first time he was "defeated," and it felt very similar. So when the news arrived that a Muggle scientist may have recreated the Dark Lord through cloning, our entire world returned to the fear we experienced during his final reign.
Cloning was something new to us. We'd done many things using our abilities, but Muggle science was something new to us. We knew they were progressing faster with every year, but passing us was something unheard of until this time. Our history was devoid of Muggle influence until some began receiving abilities as a "fluke." The Dark Lord killed many, but the phenomenon remained present, but their influence stopped their…until now.
As I read the fifth article on it within The Daily Prophet, I knew this was serious, and I along with many of my colleagues entered a Muggle library for the first time, only to find that other scholars of wizardry had beaten us. Soon, journals were being published answering our many questions, and this only caused our fear to grow.
Clones of this day and age were born as babies and raised into adulthood, giving us eighteen years to prepare. With the many people in his original life gone, there are not ways to discover what caused him to stray in the first place. We wizards and witches grew more fearful here because we saw that history could only repeat itself. Panic overpowered us quickly, to the point that officials from our government approached the parents of the baby and asked for them to follow our directions for preventing what happened. They refused and became shut-ins. Our officials asked us to forget, but we could never forget. ***
After ten years, we knew something was different. Cloning had been banned, and the few human clones that existed were shunned. Voldemort was forced into our world, and the new parents soon saw why. His abilities appeared out of nowhere, and they put articles in our newspapers asking for help in "fixing" their child. One of us was forced to take him in: a descendant from the great Harry Potter. They guided him lovingly into adulthood, and the world held their breath as he stepped into our world, alone for the first time. ***
Wizards learned about 'nature over nurture' within a month of his arrival, and we began changing our ways and monitoring our children as carefully as possible. Evil still existed, but we were doing everything to keep it from becoming as bad as it was before. But, our feelings were short lived. ***
A snippet of news caused a coalition to form, and an underground coven of wayward witches was massacred within an hour of its formation. Questions filled the air, then the announcement came: a hard breakup caused Voldemort to take over this coven, taking each witch as his wife and their children as his own. Wizards who took them down were punished, as many of the witches had outside family, but once they heard that new-Voldemort was the cause, the efforts were hushed and the prisoners were released. Things returned to normal. Laws against human cloning, in both worlds, helped prevent this from happening again, and we became less fearful. We knew from then on that we could and would prevent it from happening again. I won't live long enough to see if this is true, but I have faith in my people, in my students, and my counterparts.
In conclusion, I found faith by studying what Muggles call "religion," and I have passed my knowledge along the best way I know how: to teach.
Signed, Albus Severus Potter III