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Harry stood up and looked around. He saw Cedric do the same. He knew this place, he could remember seeing this place in his dreams.
"Where are we?" He asked Cedric and cast a lumos to see clearly. They slowly walked around trying to get a better idea about where they were. It was clear that they were miles away from Hogwarts. They heard someone making their way towards them. Harry and Cedric both pointed their wands towards the sound and waited. Harry felt a sharp pain shoot through his scar and fell to the ground. He felt his wand slip from his hand and tried to focus on getting Cedric out of the way so he won't in the path of any curses since he knew who was there. He looked up and grabbed Cedric's hand and pushed him back.
"Harry! are you okay? what are you doing?" Cedric protested and tried to move but Harry kept his hold on him.
The man who was holding a bundle point his wand at Cedric. He didn't had much time as the green light of the killing curse flew towards Cedric. He surged to his feet with all his might and pulled Cedric towards him. Cedric toppled towards Harry, barely missing the killing curse. Cedric stared wide eyed at the spot where he was and the statue that went in to pieces upon the impact of the curse. He looked back at Harry who was still holding his wrist with his right hand and his scar with his left. He could tell that Harry was in pain and went to help him when he heard a voice.
"You fool! Did I order you to kill anyone?" He thought that the man was talking but soon realized that voice came from the bundle in his arms.
"No master! I'm Sorry" The man replied.
"Prepare the ritual you fool"
"Yes Master" The rat like man went towards Harry and Cedric. He quickly Disarmed Cedric and grabbed him, but Cedric moved to stop him but Harry stopped him from doing anything.
"Harry? What are you doing?" Cedric asked Harry as both of them were bound to a headstone. Harry saw the name on the headstone, 'TOM RIDDLE' and his suspicion was proven on who was there. He felt hope flare in his mind even through the pain he was feeling.
"Ce-cedric do you trust me?" He asked through his pain.
"Yes Harry, I do! but what is going on?" Harry felt the pain in his scar diminish a little and took all of his strength and looked at Cedric directly in the eyes.
"Cedric, forget everything you know about Lord Voldemort. I found out that he isn't really the Bad guy. It's Dumbledore who really want to rule the magical world. He had obliviated me many times when I found out about his true intentions. He want Voldemort and me to kill each other, Voldemort doesn't want to kill all the muggle borns and muggles. He want to protect our world, but Dumbledore don't want that. What he wants, I really don't know. So please Cedric trust me. I know what I'm doing." He nearly begged and prayed all the gods and deities in the world that Cedric would trust him. Cedric listened shocked at what Harry was saying. He couldn't believe what Harry was saying. Dumbledore's the bad guy? He looked at Harry again and saw that he was completely honest about what he was saying. He decided to trust Harry since, if Harry says that Voldemort is actually good and Dumbledore is bad, who was he to question it? after all Harry knew about both of them than anyone else.
"Okay Harry, I trust you but you need to explain everything to me after this. Deal?"
"Deal" Harry smiled at Cedric and Cedric returned the smile and looked at the rat man who was heading towards them after preparing something in a massive cauldron. Harry saw his hand and gasp knowing who the man was. It was Wormtail. Harry glared at the man but he didn't seem to notice. He grabbed the bundle he brought and lowered the creature in it to the cauldron and came towards the headstone which Harry and Cedric was bound.
"Bone of the Father, unknowingly given, You will renew your son." The surface of the grave at Harry's feet cracked. They watched as a fine trickle of dust rose into the air at Wormtail's command and fell softly into the cauldron. The diamond surface of the water broke and hissed; it sent sparks in all directions and turned a vivid, poisonous-looking blue. Wormtail then grabbed a silver dagger from his robes and and held it over his Right arm.
"Flesh of a servant - Willingly given, you will revive your master" He brought the dagger down and cut off his right arm, it fell in to the cauldron and Wormtail's screaming pierced the night. he then came over to Harry and made to cut his hand but Harry extended his arm willingly.
"Blood of an former enemy, Future ally willingly given, I shall resurrect my former foe and future ally" Wormtail looked at Harry surprised but took the offered arm and made cut and collected a vial of blood and poured it in to the cauldron.
"Why did you willingly gave blood?" Cedric asked curious about what Harry was doing.
"I know about this ritual. It's used to give a body to a soul. And if I had not given my blood willingly and Wormtail took it by force, Voldemort will not gain a fully human form and he will be mentally unstable. Now we don't want that do we?"
"Nope" Cedric replied looking at Harry with wonder, as the cauldron started to bubble and a black smoke started to rise from it. After few minutes a figure emerged from the smoke.
He looked liked a older version of Tom Riddle from Diary. New Voldemort turned towards Harry and Cedric and started to walk towards them.
"Harry Potter" He had a deep velvet tone and Harry found his insides melting at the voice.
"H-hi" Harry managed to say before he turned bright red and looked down at his feet, finding his feet more interesting. Voldemort let out and deep chuckle at that and placed a finger underneath Harry's chin and lifted his face towards him. He waved his other Hand and the roped that was binding Harry and Cedric vanished.
"Thanks" Muttered Cedric as he watched Harry's interaction with the Dark Lord in interest. Voldemort turned to face Cedric and gave a nod in return before focusing again on Harry.
"So Harry tell me why you changed your mind about me?" Voldemort asked Harry and Harry started to tell everything except about his grandfather. Voldemort listened with interest and scowled when he heard about the Horcrux part. After Harry was finished Voldemort placed a hand on Harry's face and turned his face upwards and stroked Harry's cheek with his thumb. Harry turned a interesting shade of red and Voldemort smiled a little seeing this.
"Don't worry Harry, I won't let that old coot to hurt you again, My little Serpent." Cedric cleared his throat and both Harry and Voldemort turned towards him. Harry turned even redder when he notice the smirk Cedric was wearing.
"My Apologies, I'm Lord Voldemort. And You are?" Voldemort said turning to face Cedric, but didn't remove his hand from Harry. Instead he took Harry's hand in his and held Harry closer to him.
"Cedric Diggory, Nice meeting you" Cedric was shocked. Voldemort did not look like what he was told. He talked pleasantly and he even introduced himself. And to Cedric's surprise he didn't feel scared in front of the Dark Lord. He was amused by how Voldemort addressed Harry, his mortal enemy and how Harry reacted to them. Suddenly there was a bright white light and it engulfed Harry and Voldemort. Light stayed for a few minutes and slowly disappeared. Harry and Voldemort looked surprised and shocked.
"What Happened?" Cedric asked.
"We-we are..." Harry started but couldn't finish what he saying. So Voldemort started to explain.
"It was Lady Magic. Apparently Harry and I are soulmates. But someone had blocked the bond and that's what made me go all kill happy on everyone. And some how this person made me believe Harry was responsible to my mate's death and that made me come after Harry that Halloween night. Now That Harry know about the truth, Lady Magic was able to remove the block." Cedric listened attentively and felt bad for the Dark Lord. Who would be so cruel to block a Soul bond and then make him go after his mate.
"But who did that? It's inhumane to do something like that."
"Dumbledore" Harry answered Cedric's question.
"When Dumbledore found about the bond he blocked it and planted the idea of Harry being responsible to my mate's death. And it made me lose my mind and then magic stopped me from killing my mate by destroying my body. It was the best way to make me look bad and to convince that I'm a Dark Lord trying to kill all muggle borns and muggles."
"But why would he do that? Why did he want to make you look bad?" Cedric asked after a few minutes of silence.
"Dumbledore was always prejudice about Dark Magic. He doesn't understand that there is no Dark or Light. It's all about intention. Magic is magic. If someone want to save someone they can use what is labeled as dark spell to do it. But if someone want to hurt someone they can do that with a simple first year light spell. Think like this, the killing curse, it's one of the darkest spells, but you can use that to end someones pain, if that person can't be saved, why let him suffer?. And in the other hand levitation charm is a first year spell, but someone can use it levitate someone from a hill or a building. But Dumbledore doesn't think like that. He want the Dark magic gone. he doesn't understand without the Dark, there's no Light. So when I first came to power I tried changing those. I don't want to kill all the muggle borns or muggles. And I'm not trying to make a society with only pure bloods. I would be the biggest Hypocrite in the world then, me being half blood myself. I wanted to teach muggle borns about wizarding ways, our traditions and old ways of magics. But now just because the muggle borns don't understand or don't like these traditions, they change them. Christmas for Yule, Halloween for Samhain for example and if someone go against this they are labeled as Dark wizards or witches. And that's only a little part of my cause, there's so much more that I wanted to do, but couldn't because of Dumbledore." Voldemort calmly explained to the Teen who was listening with rapt attention.
Cedric thought about everything that he discovered in that night. About Harry's friends' betrayal, soul bond and the fact that THE DARK LORD was in front of him without killing him, but explaining about what he wanted to really do before he went mad. Cedric realized in that moment everything the Dark Lord said was true. He came to a decision and turned to face Voldemort.
While Cedric was contemplating about what he said, Voldemort turned to Harry and wrapped his hand around the boy and hugged him and placed his head on top of the mop of black hair. Harry returned the hug by wrapping his hand around Voldemort's waist buried his face in his chest.
"I'm Sorry" Harry heard Voldemort mumble softly to his head.
"What for?" Harry asked lifting his head up to see his mates face.
"For everything. For killing your parents, making you a orphan and for trying to kill you."
"It's okay, It wasn't your fault. It was all Dumbledore and if you are still blaming yourself, stop it at once. I forgive you, Tom" Tom (it's Tom now since Harry said it) looked surprised but smiled down at harry and Hugged him again.
Cedric looked at Harry and Tom to see them wrapped in each other's arms and cleared his throat a little again to gain their attention. Tom let Harry go and turned to face Cedric.
"I made my mind. I would like to join you" Cedric said his head held high and lifted his left arm for Tom to mark.
"Are you sure ? Once you are marked, there's no turning back"
"Yes I'm sure"
"Very well" Tom stepped forward and took his wand from the still form of Wormtail. They had forgotten about the man and now he was dead from the blood lose.
"Uh Oops? Guess we forgot about him" Harry said looking at the man.
"Hm well he was useless." Tom talked towards Cedric and took his left and kept the tip of his wand on the forearm.
"Do you Cedric Diggory Pledge your service to the Dark side?"
"I do"
"Do you swear to never to betray your Lord?"
"I swear"
"Morsmordre" A dark ink came out of the tip of the wand and started to spread making the Dark Mark. Cedric hissed in pain and after a few minutes the Dark Mark proudly sat on Cedric's Forearm.
"It has a Glamour spell. Only people who knows you to be a Death Eater will be able see it."
"Thank you My lord" Cedric bowed down to Tom.
"You may rise Cedric." Cedric rose to his feet and walked towards Harry and they both started to inspect the Dark Mark. Tom watched amused as Harry turned Cedric's arm in every possible way to see it better. After Harry was satisfied with his inspections, he turned towards Tom.
"So what are we going to do? I'm sure by now they realized that we are missing."
"Yes we have to do something about that" Cedric also turned to face his Lord.
"Hm how about you stay without returning?"
"Really?" Harry asked happy about the fact that he get to stay.
"Yes Harry. You both will have to stay. Hope you don't mind Cedric."
"Not at all My Lord" Cedric bowed his head and answered.
"Good, Then I shall call my followers to our Manor for a meeting tomorrow. You are welcome to stay there with us Cedric."
"Thank you My Lord"
"Now let's leave this grave yard shall we."
"Oh and Tom?"
"Yes Harry?"
"There's a spell I want you to cast on me. Can you do that?"
"What is it? It's not something harmful is it?"
"No It's not harmful. The spell is Quod suus 'occultatum revelare"
"Okay" Tom was not sure about casting an unknown spell on Harry, but he was sure that Harry won't do anything dangerous to himself. Tom pointed his wand at Harry and cast the spell.
Tom watched fascinated as Harry changed in front of his eyes. First change was his height, he gained few more inches but was still at least a 8 inches shorter than him. Harry was now approximately 5' 6". Next change was his body, he now had a lithe build and had a little feminine touch with slim waist and wider hips. He still had all the muscles he had gained from quidditch but it had changed to match his build. His skin changed to a healthy pale creamy white giving it a glow. His skin smoothed out and making if soft and silkier. Harry's face started to change next, his soft features sharpened a little with high cheek bones that gave him aristocratic look. He now had a button nose with slightly thin rosy lips with a natural pout. Next was his hair, it started to grow and fell to touch his shoulders and it changed color from black to white. Tom was stunned by the change and stared slightly wide eyed at Harry. Harry opened his eyes and Tom saw the most mesmerizing eyes he had ever seen. Harry's right eye was a icy blue that it was almost white, while the left eye was the same emerald green he before had. Harry self-consciously started to worry his bottom lip between his teeth.
"S-so How do I look?" Harry asked, even his voice had a different tone to it. Tom snapped out of his staring and saw that Harry was worried about his new appearance. He quickly closed the distance between them and wrapped his arms around Harry, pulling him closer to his body.
"Harry! You look absolutely gorgeous!. How did this happened?" Harry gave Tom a bright smile and placed his hands on Tom's chest.
"It's a glamour revealing spell. My mom placed some glamours when I was born so I look like my dad. Apparently I look like my grandfather from my mother's side. I will tell you the reason later."
"Well, it doesn't matter My little serpent. You look stunning, would you like to see?" Harry nodded his head and Tom stepped back and conjured a full body length mirror. Harry stepped in front of the mirror and looked at his new appearance and he was happy by what he saw. No one will be able identify him as Harry Potter. Only indication that he was once Harry Potter was the lightning bolt scar on his forehead. He can't wait to write to his Grandfather and see Tom's face wen he tell him exactly who his Grandfather is.
"I like it" Harry smiled happily and turned towards Cedric who was looking gobsmacked. Harry let out laugh and it snapped Cedric out of his shock. he smiled at Harry and turned to Tom who was watching Harry.
"Okay then let's go" Tom turned to Harry and took his hand in his and extended his other hand to Cedric. Cedric took the offered hand and Tom Apparited all of them to Riddle manor, where he had decided to live.