HARRY POTTER AND THE WAR TO COME
A.N: - this story has been written after the order of the phoenix and contains spoilers for it. It has also been written from Harry's point of view. I will also not go into a great deal of the past events because we all know what happened.
Disclaimer: - This story is based on characters and situations created and owned by JK Rowling, various publishers including but not limited to Bloomsbury Books, Scholastic Books and Raincoast Books, and Warner Bros., Inc. No money is being made and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended
Chapter 1: owls and warnings
A young boy who could not be more than 16 years old lay in his bead thinking about the events of the past year. The death of his beloved Godfather the infamous Sirius Black. He could not help but feel guilty about Sirius' death because as far as he was concerned Sirius came to the ministry of magic to save Harry.
TAP TAP
Harry looked up and saw a huge group of owls waiting to let him in he quickly opened the window and let them in there seemed to be more owls this year. "Oh well" thought Harry. He first proceeded to open up a letter from an owl he did not recognize and thought that it might be from Voldemort but soon reached upon a conclusion that Voldemort would probably send letter with Dementors. He surely was not one for subtleties. When he opened the letter, he saw it was from Sirius. He quickly opened the letter.
Dear Harry
If you get this letter then I am probably dead. I just hope I died serving the light and fighting voldemort. I know that you are you father's son so would blame yourself for my death. Please don' t harry, I want you to continue living and wage the battle against Voldemort (yeah I finally got around to saying the name) as you were destined to. I am sending you something that will probably help you prepare for the fight against Voldemort.
The letter cheered him up immensely and he decided that he was going to fight Voldemort and not let Sirius down he would win. Win in the memory of Sirius Black.
Sirius' gift had been a book on some of the darkest curses. Harry had heard about this book from Hermione. THE DARK BOOKS OF CURSES contained some of the most gruesome curses. It even taught how people were supposed to cast the unforgivables. It had two sections legal and illegal. Even the curses in the legal section made him feel like he was going to vomit so he put the book away for studying later.
Ron and Hermione had sent him the usual notes of not to let the muggles get him down and Ron also informed him that dumbledore had refused to let him come to the weasley house this year.
Then he opened his Owl results
Ordinary wizarding levels result for Mr. Harry Potter
Divination: - T
History of magic: - P
Herbology: - A
Care of Magical Creatures: - E
Transfiguration: - E
Potions: - O
Charms: - O
Defense against the dark arts: - O*
Comments: - Has shown excellent aptitude for defense against the dark arts and is advised to take in his N.E.W.T.S any or all of the subjects in which Exceed expectations or higher has been scored.
Now harry was really happy because he could become an Auror and could not wait to see Snape's face when he found out that Harry potter would be attending his class. Harry next opened The School letter
Mr. Potter
Please tick mark the subjects you wish to take for your N.E.W.T.S examination. Your choices will be based on how you have scored in a particular subject
P.S. there is also a message from Prof. Dumbledore
N.W.T.S Selection form
DADA
COMC
POTIONS
CHARMS
TRANSFIURATION
Harry ticked all the subjects except COMC. He sorely hoped Hagrid would not be offended. He then read Dumbledore's letter
Harry
Now your life is in grave danger therefor you will be transported directly to Platform 9¾. Here is a portkey just say the word ACTIVO and you will be transported. To prevent the accidental use of the portkey it will only be able to transport you between 9:30 to 11:00 on the morning of 1st September. Also after the feast please meet me in my office the password is laughing liquorice
Albus Dumbledore
Harry wasn't too shocked after hearing the prophecy he expected his life to be in great danger. When Harry looked atclock, he realized it as one in the morning so he went to bed.
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The next day he woke up to his aunt's screeching voice telling him to make breakfast. After Moody and Tonks had threatened them last year, it did not mean that they were not going to make him do all the chores they were only just going to treat him a bit better. The slight improvement was that after he had demanded and threatened them, they had started paying him for his work.
Another positive thing to come out of remodeling the entire garden was that his physique had developed and when he was walking around in the neighborhood many young girls of his age were giving him looks which would have made their boyfriends' blood boil. Not only that but one of them had even come to ask him that if he was new in the neighborhood and needed a guided tour. It took all of his self-control to not laugh at her.
Now what exactly he was doing in the neighborhood? To many, it would seem like he was taking a leisurely stroll but had anyone kept an eye at him they would have realized that he stopped in the area where the martial arts class was going on. He would observe them and then try to imitate what was going on. Just a day or two before his leave for Hogwarts he realized that by now his movement were so fluent that he must be eligible for the brown belt. He would have also realized that something was amiss if he had but known that it is impossible to reach brown belt in just one month.
Martial arts were not the only he thing he was concentrating on when he went home. After dinner each night, he would practice the curses in the book and by the day he would leave for Hogwarts had managed to complete the whole legal section. Even after a month he still remembered the day, he read the book and it's first page.
Reader
Be warned. This book contains some of the most gruesome curses many that are not even know to humanity. If you thought that the unforgivable curse were the worst curses. Think again. This book has curses which makes the Crucatius curse look like a walk in the park. However, this magic must NOT be considered dark. Magic in itself does not have the ability to think ability to choose the light or the dark. It is the user of the magic that makes it light or dark. This book also does not contain spells that you can practice on human beings without reason. Therefore to practice them add the words "phantomus" before all spells and cast them on this book. If it glows red you got it right. If it glows blue, keep trying and if it does not glow then you are too weak a magic-user. Return the book to the place it came from.
YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED
Harry tried some of the spells that night and what amazed him was that he got most of the spells right with in the first or second tries. It was then that Harry came to know what real torture meant. There were spells which would make your heart burn but not kill you. In both sections, there were three sub-sections. First was about battle spells or spells that would effect 6-10 people. Second Dueling spells or spells that would effect an individual and third torture spells that may not be very effective in fights but very effective in torture.
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When Harry woke up the next day on the 1st September he was very excited to go back to his 'home' as he liked to refer to it. The previous night he had already told his aunt and Uncle the way he was going at first they were reluctant but later agreed when he said the a Wizarding family might come like that in his 4th year and cause a racket. They did tell him to close his windows and uncle Vernon had made it very clear that no one was to know. "If any neighbor so much as asks if there is anything unusual going on then you will find yourself locked up in the cupboard under the stairs for the rest of you vacation next year"
Well he was going to be careful because he did not fancy three months in a cupboard. He quickly put on the old western hat, which was the portkey, all the time wondering about the sanity of his mentor, Albus Dumbledore. At exactly 10:30 he said the words which would activate the portkey and felt a familiar jerk at his naval and the world started to dissolve in front of his eyes and soon Harry Potter was in privet drive no more.
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