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Harry Potter and The Candle of Obsession

Prologue

He was in a cold dark room, made completely out of stone. He sat upon a high throne, looking out at the room, with its dark walls and floor of red carpet, no, wait, it blood. Harry shuddered. A door to the side of the room slid open and in came four men in black robes with white masks. Death eaters. With them, they dragged to prisoners. On was beaten to an unregognizable pulp, no longer remotely human but more of a skinless blob of blood and guts. The face was the most disturbing. There were bloody sockets in place of eyes and a wide toothless hole in the center that let out an unearthly scream of pain and suffering. Harry felt his eyes shift to the other prisoner, a small young girl, who was sobbing and watching the other prisoner in horror. "Daddy" she whispered harry heard the cold high voice of voldemort speaking. He realized it was coming from him. "See Harry, this is what will happen until you surrender to me. Crucio!" He said and the little girl writhed in pain and let out a scream akin to that of the other prisoner.

Then the Dream changed. He was in a bright sunny meadow. There were flowers all around and a cottage in the distance. He saw four people, two in white robes and two in black. They were speaking, discussing something about the worthy one. He walked forward to hear better, but there was a loud. BEEP!

Hunh? He thought, before he was jolted out of sleep. "Well that was a strange dream!" he shivered, and then proceeded to leap from his bed, grab his glasses and groan at the time. "Late again. It's only the third day of school and I've already got three detentions. I'd better hurry." He said said and ran from the room, before running back to put on some clothes

Harry hurried down to breakfast, where he realized that he was missing his wand. He rushed back upstairs and made it down with a few minutes left of breakfast. As soon as he sat down, Hermione began to speak: "Have you heard yet?"

"About what?" Harry grumbled.

"About the Candle Of Obsession!"

"The what?"

"You know, the one they talk about in The New Chronicles of The Climactic Magical Discoveries of The Century!"

"Oh, yeah, that one. It's my favorite light reading to counterpart that easy stuff they call being busy."

"Don't you read?"

"No."

"Ugh. Boys."

"Men" Interrupted Ron, who up until this time had been staring at a girl across the hall. Hermione snorted.

"Hey! Stop criticizing us and tell us about it!"

"Well…………………..

- To Be Continued -