Disclaimer: I do not own The Harry Potter group J.K. Rowling does, nor do I own the Labyrinth Group Jim Henson owns them, however my interpretation of How Jareth should look is my own. This story is purely for entertainment not investment Purposes.

Chapter Two: The strange man with the hooded cloak.

Jareth was furious passing back and forth in front of a mansion that he was suppose to be able to pop in and out of with the snap of his finger's, he had just left Dumbledore at the black manor not more than a minute before and tracked down the sniveling traitor by following his terrified thought's. Only to be thwarted by a force field of some kind that apparently was directed at his kind, how dare they keep him out. He had tried everything except he thought with a wicked grin on his face, my owl form. And with a shower of multi colored glitter he became a large white barn own and flew right over the force field and landed on his own feet in the lawn behind it. He saw several people file out of the house as if his touching the grounds had activated a silent alarm and aim their wands at his chest.

Jareth Rolled his eyes and brushed none existent dust off his shoulder ignoring the men in black robes. "That will not harm me but feel free to try this might be rather amusing." He said with a bored Drawl when he was done brushing off his shoulders. He looked up and found all of the men staring at him with an almost confused look on their faces, apparently they were used to people running in terror from them, what confirmed it was when one of the taller member's of the group stepped forward and said "We can kill you with one spell."

Jareth Chuckled lightly and stared at the man and saw the shiver that ran down his spine then he said "Oh do get on with it, this show of manly prowess is giving me a head ache."

So all at once they all sent off their spell's and just to make them think they were winning because it was so much fun and because they couldn't see him because off all the flashes of different light he began yelling out as if everyone hitting him hurt but with a sarcastic tone that none of them seemed to catch. Once the lawn was full of smoke he dramatically fell to the ground and closed his eyes hand's crossed over his chest and waited for one of them to investigate.

It didn't take long before one of the shorter one's came up and prodded him with his wand, Jareth didn't even grunt so the man knelt next to him and felt for a pulse once his face was close enough Jareth opened his eyes and said softly "who gave you permission to touch my person?" Not giving him a chance to cry out Jareth blew a silvery powder at his face from his palm and pushed him backwards onto his back before he was snoring soundly.

Then he stood and began walking through the cloud of smoke only to nearly run into one of the other men but before he could see him he too got a face full of silver power and fell into a deep sleep standing up, Jareth tilted his head to the side and thought 'how peculiar' and said out loud as he waved his hand lowering the man to the ground "wouldn't it be far more comfortable to be laying down."

Then he stepped over him and right into the middle of the rest of the men who were slowly backing up towards each other. Then just for the fun of it he said out loud tapping a finger on his chin "I wonder could you be looking for me."

All at once they all spun around and Jareth nearly laughed when they nearly tripped over each other in their haste to gain their wands. Then he put one arm across his middle and the other he placed on his cheek and said sarcastically "oh do take your time this is actually quite a comfortable position." Then without further thought he crossed his ankles and stood like that tapping one foot as if he was extremely bored. Then when they all finally had their wands facing him seeing only a couple hands shaking he said with a yawn which he covered with his hand "oh do give me a break I thought you all had figured out I cannot be harmed by your petty spells, oh well too late now."

Then with a quick spin he placed his hand under his chin and began blowing the silver power at them which had suddenly appeared in his palm at least that is what the death eaters would tell their master when they all woke from a very deep sleep the next morning. He spun quickly on his heals his cloak billowing around him and each and every one of the men in black robes fell like fly's at his feet. Then he cocked his head quickly to the side and said "such a pity I couldn't stay longer but I have much to do, I enjoyed this even if it wasn't much of a challenge for me, have a nice sleep don't let the Goblin's bite."

Then he stepped over the now sleeping men and walked right through the open door that they had conveniently forgot to close, it was then that he found the sniffling traitor Wormtail, then he spoke and saw the poor excuse for a man shiver "I have come for you Peter Pettigrew I got quite a fight from your companions out there and I grow bored with the whole ordeal now are we going to do this the easy way or the hard way?"

He then rolled his eyes when peter became a rat and thought 'I should have figured he would choose the hard way.' Then he produced a crystal and threw it at the rat that was trying very hard to escape through a hole in the wall, he heard it squeak then he saw the face of the man instead of the rat staring out through the now misty depth's of his crystal which was spinning harmlessly on the floor.

He walked over and picked up the warm crystal and pocketed it in his cloak and pulled the hood over his head. Then with a flash of multi colored glitter he disappeared from the manor.

A few seconds later he appeared in the middle of a small group of late night ministry worker's who cried out in panic that was until he silenced them by saying "forgive the intrusion and the rude entrance but I wish to speak to the minister."

"I am the minister sir, how may I be of service." A short plump man wearing a green robe said.

"I have in my possession something that may be of interest to you however I do not wish to hand it over to you in front of your colleagues." Jareth said still shielding his appearance from the onlooker's with the hood of his cloak.

"Very well follow me." The minister said leading him to a private room away from the room he had originally appeared in.

Once there Jareth pulled the crystal out from his cloak and showed it to the minister who scoffed and said "why would a crystal with the face of peter Pettigrew be of any use to me?"

"Because dear minister this is peter not just a picture, then with a pointed look at the minister of magic threw the crystal at the floor and a second later peter was standing where the crystal had shattered. You see I think he will be of great use to you for one very simple reason, it would clear the innocent name of Sirius Black and allow him to care for his God Son Harry Potter properly."

"Sirius black died last year within our walls what good would it do for us to clear his name?" The minister asked sending a pair of magical shackles to lock onto Peter's wrist's so that he could not change nor leave his side, and called his wand to his hand.

"ah but that is the thing Sirius black was not dead just put into suspended animation behind the veil of shadow's, just as all the others who are trapped there are, but this morning before any of your official's were aware of it I had procured Mr. Black from the confines of the veil of shadow's and sent him on his way to his god son knowing that I would capture peter and clear his name before the night was out." Jareth said simply.

"Who are you? And could you do the same for the others in the veil of shadows?" the Minister asked no longer confused as to why his men had found a scattering of multi colored glitter in the room with the veil of shadows. For he noticed that when the cloaked man had arrived, it had been with a shower of the same fore mentioned stuff.

"Who I am is of no consequence however I will tell you that I could if you wished it remove the rest of the good men and women from the veil and then I could tell you who I was but you would not be able to disclose it to anyone else." Jareth said with a bored drawl and thought 'wow this is one of the most interesting night's I have had in a while but it is still boring the hell out of me.'

The minister thought about the whole thing for a moment and said "very well you have brought significant evidence to clear Sirius Black's name and I will be sure to have it posted in the daily prophet first thing tomorrow morning, but what would happen should I wish for the men and woman trapped in the veil?"

Jareth smiled though the man in front of him could not see it and said simply "I would require something from you in return for the use of my magic to do so, it would have to be of equal not lesser value of the soul's I would be saving."

"I would give anything to save them." The minister said passionately.

"I wouldn't say that if I were you." Jareth stated sharply.

"Why not it is the truth even if I had to give my life in return for there's I would." The minister said with a flourish.

It was then that Jareth realized what this meant and he asked "who do you know personally that is trapped in its confines?"

"My wife and son sir, they have been trapped there for over four years now, I have tried everything to get them out and nothing has worked, it was all my fault anyway, they had come to visit me at work one day I was young and worked with the unspeakables, they wanted to see where I worked and I didn't think anything of it until we got the room housing the veil, Gregory my son was running around the veil hiding behind the pillar's I noticed him and yelled out he got startled and started falling towards the veil and before I could even run to him my wife ran and together they fell into the veil, I ran after them only to be held by a few of my worker's." The minister said tears streaming down his cheek's at the memory.

Jareth nodded and said "very well you have already paid the price that was required for me to do the spell with your heart ache; however I will warn you once you wish it and it is done the power of the veil will be broken are you willing to risk that?"

The minister nodded and Jareth said sternly "Very well gather as many of your worker's as you can for we have a long night ahead of us, gather blanket's and cloth's and warn them that the appearance of whoever comes out of there will not be pretty, also if you cry at all would you gather them in this crystal for that is your payment, if you however forget it will catch them automatically." He produced another crystal then and tossed it to the smiling minister, who caught it and stared at it with confusion.

Then Jareth stood and with a flash of glitter disappeared from the room. The minister of Magic stared at the place he was a moment before and thought 'I still didn't catch his name.'

Shaking his head to clear it he grabbed Peter and dragged him back to the room where the rest of his crew sat waiting for them and sent the daily prophet worker's to immediately start work on the paper after they snapped pictures of him, then he handed him off to the guard's and told the rest to send urgent messages to all the Auror's and the rest of the staff to gather at in the room with the veil of shadow's was for he was going to be lifting the restriction of apperating there while he waited.

Then he himself apperated to the room with the veil in it to find Jareth standing in front of the veil whispering something in a language he didn't even understand. Then as if he sensed him there he said "minister I would recommend that you open your arms for the first one who will be pulled through is your son." Then just as he spoke the veil swished swelled out as if pushed open by a great wind and a body was thrown through the dark swirling vortex behind the veil, the minister just barely had his arms extended in enough time to catch his son.

Jareth turned around and found the minister cradling his son close and saw tears run out of his eyes and disappear. Then he warned " Minister remember what I told you they will at first be pretty bad off, as of right now your son has yet to take his first breath so I would recommend that you set him on the ground and let the magic do its work."

The minister did as he was told and the moment he laid his son down he began to spasm and arch then with one last arch he took his first shuttering breath. And that was when Jareth saw the tear's flow even harder. He then got his attention and tossed his a crystal which immediately became a blanket.

The minister wrapped the boy up in the blanket the moment there was a great clattering as over a hundred men and women apperated into the room.

Each had their arm's full with an assortment of blankets and cloths but the moment they saw the boy that their minister was kneeling next to they all dropped what they had and all gathered around the veil waiting for the man in the velvet cloak to tell them what to do. They didn't have to wait long.

"Alright all of you listen up, one at a time when I tell you it is time I want you to brace yourselves as best you can to catch a person who is going to come flying out of the veil, sometimes I may ask two of you to come and I want no questions asked, then what needs to happen is whoever is brought out needs to be lain on the floor so that the magic can work, once they take their first breaths I want them to be wrapped in a blanket or clothed for while they are weak the coldness of the room could likely mean their deaths. Also if there are any healer's among you be prepared to treat any injuries that may have been gained before these people were pushed through the veil." Jareth said as he still faced the veil, Then he mumbled the incantation again and said through gritted teeth "now."

One man walked up and held out his arms and the moment he did the small form of a woman flew out and the minister gasped when he realized it was his wife. The man didn't even have to be told to bring her to the minister and everyone watched as the woman's body arched off the floor and she took a startled breath. Then the minister wrapped her scantily clad body in a blanket someone offered him.

This went on for the next hour and only four times did Jareth have to demand through clenched teeth for two to prepare themselves. And by the time he was done the room was full of over two hundred souls and that didn't include the ministry worker's. At the end a with a bright flash the veil was no more. Jareth collapsed on the step's sweat pouring down his face and yet he didn't dare take his hood off. He nearly jumped when a glass of something was pushed under his nose and he looked up still careful to conceal his face to find a red headed man holding out the glass to him The man smiled and said "looked like you could use a pick me up, the name is Arthur Weasley."

Jareth looked at him a moment and asked "what is it?"

"It's a potion called invigoration drought." Arthur said.

"Were any of the ingredients prepared with anything with iron in it?" Jareth asked.

" no sir it is generally frowned upon to use anything with iron in it on ingredient's for potion's for we never know who might need it, is there a reason you asked?" Arthur asked curious about the man who was powerful enough to pull over two hundred men and woman out of the veil then destroy it.

"No reason I was just wondering, why were you wondering?" Jareth said drinking the potion and immediately feeling far better than a moment before.

"Just curious is all, not something that's too unusual for me." Arthur said then he wondered off to see if he was needed for anything else. The moment he had left Jareth stood and disappeared in a shower of Multi colored glitter. Everyone in the room gasped at his sudden departure but the minister didn't seem to notice anything other than the fact that the weight of the crystal in his pocket was no longer there and he knew that he had paid his dept.

Jareth arrived in his chambers a moment later to Find Hoggle pacing around them ringing his hat between his hand's anxiously, once he saw him he fell to his knees said "forgive me my lord I know no one is allowed in your chamber's but this is urgent."

Jareth sat on his bed feeling the powers of his realm refresh him far better than a mortal potion ever could and said seeing Hoggle relax " well go on tell me what is so urgent."

"Well your Majesty the ogre king has been waiting at the border for the last two hour's wanting to renegotiate the trade route through their land's, apparently my lord they have had a few raiding's on their female encampment's and have lost quite a few of their breeder's. We have tried to negotiate with them in your absents and though they have listened they refuse to agree to anything without you there to make it official." Hoggle said bouncing from foot to foot in his nervousness.

"Very well tell them I will be there shortly I must get out of these cloth's before I enter their presents." Jareth said with a sigh.

Hoggle was just about to leave and do just that when Jareth said "and Hoggle."

He turned around and looked at his feet trembling from head to foot "yes my lord."

"Never be afraid to enter my chambers if it is an emergency." Jareth said.

Hoggle breathed a sigh of relief and rushed out the door to bring the message to the ogre king.

And Jareth wandered listlessly towards his wardrobe, and grabbed his royal regalia and gave another great sigh 'this is going to be a very long night.' He thought as he stripped himself of the cloths he had worn to the mortal world.

Once he was dressed he breathed another great sigh and disappeared without his normal flair too tired to summon his normal sparkles.

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