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Chapter -3
Three months have passed since Harry arrived in this dimension. While Harry was basking in the happiness of finally having a family, Shadow was creating all kinds of hara-kiri in the wizarding world. He had already destroyed three of Voldemort's horcruxes including the diary. He had also executed Lucius Malfoy, Crabbe & Goyle and forced their wives to surrender half of their wealth into his vault.
Their deaths had caused a lot of grief to many people. Chief among them was Cornelius Fudge; he knew he had lost an important financial contributor and an important ally. He needed Lucius's cunning to keep Dumbledore in check. He knew of Lucius's shady past, but Fudge only saw usefulness in other people .His dealings with Lucius were a win for both of them. Now he would have to look for new sources of funding, the widow Malfoy didn't seem too eager to interact with him. She looked fearful and twitchy; Fudge reasoned that her husband's sudden demise had caused her to loose her nerve.
Many pureblood supporters were also unhappy. Lucius was a staunch supporter of pure blood issues and they were now fearful that influence of Dumbledore would increase .On the other side many people who fought for the light side, knew the truth about Lucius and felt relived that a dangerous character was now gone.
Harry had no idea what to do with the money in his vault. For now he decided to sit on the money for a while. Harry's next targets were a couple of low level death eaters. They were not rich or well off, but they were good muscle, Lucius malfoy used to use them to tie up loose ends. They were unmarried and lived together. Harry waited till end of another month till dust settled down on Lucius death.
Shadow was waiting in a creepy alley where the house of those death eaters stood. Surprisingly he saw that a muggle taxi was approaching. The two death eaters got out with two other women and the cab left. Harry realized from the behaviour of women that the women were under imperious curse .They started molesting the women even before they went inside and that's when Shadow struck. Both of them went down without a sound when Shadow's stunners had hit them from behind. Shadow quickly leviated the bodies inside the house and also pushed the women inside the house. He asked Hedwig to take the death eaters to den, then proceeded to modify the memories of both women and dropped them at their houses.
Shadow then apparated back to Den. Den was looking very neat and tidy, now that Dobby was working there now. Shadow interrogated each of them individually. No new information came from the death eaters .Shadow then executed them with the heart stopping curse and then asked Dobby to burn the bodies,to do the clean up and then apparted back to his bedroom
Harry knew no one would miss these two death eaters as they were a couple of loners who operated in secret.
Harry knew there was one person whom he could murder in daylight and no one in wizarding world would care about .He was Fenrir Greyback ,notorious werewolf who specialized in killing children during the war .Voldemort held werewolves in contempt but he knew they had their uses . Greyback had his own agenda when he joined Voldemort. After the war the Greyback's pack which was working for Voldemort split up and all of them went into hiding. It had taken Hedwig a month to track down Greyback .He was on the run always and never stayed for more than a few days in one place .He was currently hiding along with two others in a remote forest in Scotland. After tonight Greyback would not be running anywhere.
The tent in which Greyback and his two mates were sleeping was blasted away by a curse from Shadow. All three of them rolled onto the floor and started firing curses in the direction of shadow. Shadow apparated in between them and cut off the heads of greybacks friends with a sword .Greyback was shocked and started running in the opposite direction. After he had probably gone two hundred metres, he heard an animal chasing him at high speed .He turned back to see a mythical shadow wolf jumping on him and biting him in his leg .Greyback managed to push the animal away from his leg ,but the damage was done .Half of his right thy was missing .
"Got a taste of your own medicine?" Greyback stopped howling to see who it was .Just where there was a wolf a moment ago stood Shadow.
"Who are you?" cried Greyback.
"Tut tut, the mighty Greyback howling in pain .Come on brother, can't take the bite of fellow wolf?", then shadow stunned him.
He apparated back to the place where the tent was and burned everything including the bodies of mates of Greyback .By then Hedwig had taken Greyback to the Den.
Greyback woke up and felt the pain in the leg and a potion in his mouth. He told shadow everything about his dealings with Voldemort, names of members of his pack, their probable locations. After that shadow executed him by cutting off his head with a sword. He gave instructions for Dobby to burn the body and to clean up the mess and then retired for the night.
Next month was a very busy one for Shadow .Greyback had indicated that more than half of his pack has fled to other countries, but there were still atleast a dozen dangerous werewolves living in small groups and often attacking muggles, hiding in remote villages. During the next month Shadow made a total of five attacks in which he killed fifteen werewolves .His method was simple, decapitate them and burn their bodies.
Harry had thought that his extermination of werewolves went unnoticed by wizarding world. One day after dinner he was playing a board game with the twins when he heard his parents talking about werewolves with Remus & Sirius.
"So what were you saying about the rumors regarding werewolves?" questioned James.
"We know that many of the werewolves went into hiding after the war. Many left the country, but some remained back, like Greyback. They were supposed to be moving around never staying for too long in one place. They used to have some contact with their foreign brothers once in a while. It seems that the foreign brothers have totally lost contact with their brothers in Britain .Some of them are suspecting that British ministry had them exterminated" replied Remus.
"Ha, Ministry ordering a hit on Greyback .No one in the ministry has the courage to give such an order" laughed James.
"Or may be they are regrouping and went incommunicado. You should alert madam Bones about this possibility" added Sirius.
Harry was sleeping in his bed and thinking about the discussion of his parents. 'So the rest of pack knows their brothers were killed. Will they decide to come back and investigate? Let them come .If they are wise they would stay away. Once Shadow goes public they wouldn't dare anyway'.
Harry's next target was Theodore Nott, a wizengamot member and a rich pure blood. He was not a marked death eater, Voldemort purposefully left him unmarked, and he stayed neutral in public eye during the war while trying to undermine efforts against Voldemort in the name of Wizard rights. He was more of a muggle hater than a pure blood believer. He was a paranoid man. There were always four body guards protecting him. His mansion was also heavily warded. The wards will not be able to prevent shadow apparition, since there were no shadow mages alive today and knowledge of wards to stop shadow apparition was lost ages ago.
Nott Jr worked as an auror. He was not marked in the war as he was still at Hogwarts at that time. His father wanted him to get into a position of power, so he joined the aurors, he believed in a few years with his fathers influence and money he would he become Head Auror. He was also a muggle hater and pure blood supporter but he was careful to stay under the radar. Both the father & son often used their bodyguards to kidnap muggle women and satisfied their perverted desires, later the bodyguards used to dispose the women.
Harry had decided that both Father & son duo will have to be executed, but they will have to be disposed in an orderly fashion. It should appear as if they have left on a family vacation. So one night Shadow appeared in the Nott manor. He first stunned the sleeping house elves, and then he went to look for the body guards. Instead of four he found only one person on guard in the hall. He stunned the guard from behind and then went to look for other three .He found that all three were sleeping in a room in the basement. It didn't take long for Shadow to stun all three of them. He removed all articles they were holding and then threw a rope port key at them which would take them to the cage in the Den.
Five minutes later Nott family woke up to find themselves tied to chairs and a dangerous looking wizard staring at them. Nott Sr called for his bodyguards while his wife called for the house elves, to their shock no one came to help.
"Ok, now that the hysterics are over, lets get on with business shall we!" announced Shadow. "My name is Shadow, today you will be judged for your crimes you have done. Don't worry, I wont punish you until I hear your confessions."
For the next one hour Shadow heard the of the misdeeds that Nott family had done in support of Voldemort and also the crimes they have been doing after the war. Surprisingly Shadow had found that Mrs. Nott never participated in the crimes of her husband and son, she however did nothing to stop them also .She was a neutral in a perverse way.
Shadow then put both father and son under imperious curse and then gave them instructions that to inform others that Nott family would be leaving to South America to take care of some family business and they would be back after six months . Shadow then turned his attention to Mrs Nott.
"So Mrs Nott what should I do with you? You should have probably realized by now that your husband and son will be dead as soon as they complete my instructions"
"Please, let me go, you heard the whole truth .I never committed any crime."
"But you stood and watched the whole time, you could have gone to the aurors, you could have written anonymous letters, if you wanted to stop them truly you could have done it. Justice will have to be done to the families torn apart by this war."
"Please spare my life, I can provide money as compensation, I will leave the country."
"Very well then. You will transfer half of your family wealth to the vault number in this paper. After that you will leave the country and stay away from this country. You will not try to alert the ministry or anyone regarding our deal or the imperious curse placed on your husband and son .You will make an unbreakable vow in this regard"
After the soon-to-be widow made the unbreakable vow, Shadow apparated back to the Den to interrogate the body guards. Their confessions made him wonder who were sicker, the death eaters or mercenaries. At least the death eaters had a hate ideology to stick to, these fuckers will do anything as long as the price is right. Shadow didn't even want to kill them .Harry gave instructions to Dobby to feed them with poisoned pumpkin juice and then dispose of the bodies after they have died .Dobby accepted these instructions gleefully ,after all Dobby grew up in the Malfoy house and was a Dark Elf and had a lot of pent up anger against wizards .
Next day Nott Sr met Wizengamot Administrative Head and informed him that he would be out of country for next six months and would not be able to attend any wizengamot meetings. Next he also met a few of his acquaintances in the ministry and told them that his family would be out of country for the next six months.
Meanwhile Nott Jr was doing the same in Auror department .He met with his head and gave the long leave application and then met with his auror friends and informed that he and his family will be out of country for next six months
Meanwhile Mrs Nott had followed the instructions of Shadow and transferred the gold to his vault .Then she purchased a confidential port key from the Goblins and had silently left the country. That night in 'Den', Shadow was thinking on the manner of execution of Nott Sr and Nott Jr. Both of them were in separate cages and Shadow had lifted the imperious curse from them.
"So how does it feel to know that you set up your own deaths?" laughed Shadow.
"Who are you, why are you doing this?" cried Nott Jr. Nott Sr had resigned himself to death and remained silent.
"Who am I? I am a victim of your so called Dark Lord .He took away all my happiness .Since he is not around death eaters like you are going to pay"
"I am not a death eater; I never did anything for the Dark Lord. I was still in school when the war ended. Please let me go." Nott Jr tried to reason.
"What about the many muggle women that you had raped and killed, you sick bastard. Killing muggles is not even crime to you" shouted Shadow in anger.
"Dobby these two scum must die a painful death, but I don't want to dirty my hands, what do you suggest?" Shadow questioned Dobby.
"Master there is a hyena pack living on the other side of forest. I will make cuts on their ankles so that they cannot walk and throw them in midst of Hyenas .They will do the job for us." The darker tendencies in Dobby were coming out slowly.
"Very well then, do it but make sure that none escapes alive" .Shadow was happy that he had chosen Dobby to be his elf; the elf was the perfect foil for him.
Next six months Shadow was in action many times. Five prominent pure bloods perished in mysterious accidents with their families leaving the country soon unable to bear the loss of Patriarch, couple of Wizengamot members committed suicide citing boredom in their life, few aurors and ministry workers went missing. Intelligent people in the wizarding world noticed that in the last one year many people had mysteriously died, the highest since the war ended .Though all of them were accidents they had a strange feeling about the deaths. There was also the matter of five ministry employees missing including two aurors .The air of suspicion was spreading around. Then Shadow played his masterstroke which would forever cripple Voldemort's forces.
A wolf was slowly walking towards the Azkaban fortress in the darkness of the night. Shadow could have apparated there, but he did not know the full extent of wards in Azkaban. The wards will not be able to stop him apparate but there could be intruder identifying wards. Shadow didn't want to take any chance, this mission was too important to fail. Hedwig was also tailing him, on the lookout for any danger. Shadow entered the high security wing, where all the death eaters who were convicted after the war were prisoned. Some of the notorious names that were housed here were the Lestranges, Carrows, Yaxley, Dolohov, as notorious as the Dark Lord himself.
Azkaban that night saw a massacre which it will never see again. Shadow had created a runic metallic wall between the high security wing and rest of prison. The Dementors sensed a new presence in the high security wing and tried to move there, but were unable to get past the wall .They sent the signal to alert the aurors on guard. The aurors came after a few minutes but they also couldn't get past the rune wall. After a hour the wall disappeared .
Mean while Shadow entered each cell and severed the neck of the death eater in the cell with a powerful cutting curse. He felt like a doctor operating on the cancer in a patient. Shadow executed all the death eaters except for Bellatrix Lestrange with whom he had future use. He stunned her and then apparated back to Den with her. All in all Azkaban prison would not forget that night .Seventeen high security prisoners were murdered while one was kidnapped.
Next day all hell broke loose in wizarding world .Cornelius Fudge was not a morning person. He had just received a high priority message from Amelia Bones to attend a emergency meeting in the morning in her office. This year has been a bad one for him. He had lost many of his financial backers, all of them in accidents .He had started to believe that this was conspiracy by the goblins to takeover the wizarding world.
"What is it Amelia, this better be good .You know I hate early morning meetings?" barked Fudge entering Bones office.
It was only then he noticed that Rufus Scrimgeour, the Head Auror, Henry Smith, the Warden of Azkaban and two other aurors were also present in the room.
Amelia looked gravely at the minister "I will let the warden of Azkaban explain to you what has happened"
"Minister! Yesterday at midnight, Azkaban was attacked by unknown number of people .They managed to infiltrate into the High security wing bypassing all our wards and murdered seventeen out of the eighteen prisoners housed in that wing" replied Henry coolly.
"What, this cant be true! How where they able to bring down the wards? They were supposed to unbreakable?" shouted the hysterical minister.
"They didn't break the wards, they just slipped past them .How, I don't know yet."
"Oh, this going to be a major embarrassment for the ministry. What were the dementors and aurors doing when this was happening?" questioned the minister.
"The dementors had sensed a new wizard in the high security wing. Their path to that wing was however blocked by a rune wall. They then signaled the aurors. They were also unable to get the wall down. The wall however disappeared after an hour. That's when they discovered the massacre."
"You mentioned a survivor Henry?" questioned Rufus.
"There were no survivors Rufus, the eighteenth prisoner was Bellatrix Lestrange whose body was missing, so I am assuming she was kidnapped or she escaped .But going by the brutality of the massacre the odds are on the former assumption."
"Summary is, some group entered Azkaban and killed 17 death eaters and kidnapped one death eater. Minister, we may have a serious threat on our hands .We don't know who this group is, what their motives are." Added Amelia.
"No need to create panic, Amelia .We need to keep this under the radar. We can create a cover story of an accident and people will buy it. After all the dead are convicted death eaters." Fudge replied.
"Minister, I think a coverup will hurt you the most. If truth comes out later, people will think the ministry executed them secretly .Many purebloods may get unhappy if they hear ministry is executing death eaters" replied Amelia with sarcastically.
"Damn you Amelia, you are in charge of Magical Law enforcement, How could this happen under your watch?" barked Fudge who know was loosing temper.
"May be if you didn't cut the budget of Magical Law enforcement ,there would have been more aurors present at Azkaban , more resources gathering intelligence on threats and this incident would never have happened. Still think cutting our budget and number of aurors is a good decision? MINISTER" shouted Amelia.
DAILY PROPHET (Evening Edition)
Massacre in Azkaban
This evening Amelia Bones, Head of Magical Law Enforcement, made a shocking announcement that some unknown group of people had entered the high security wing of Azkaban prison and murdered seventeen prisoners and escaped before the dementors and aurors could respond. All prisoners in this wing were convicted death eaters. It was also announced that Bellatrix Lestrange notorious death eater was missing after the incident. She is believed to have escaped during this commotion. All the other death eaters were found with their neck severed from their torso. Ministry is investigating the incident and further details will be given after the investigation.
This incident will come as a major embarrassment for the Cornelius Fudge, who had reduced the budget for Magical Law enforcement and increased it for the useless 'Regulation of Magical creatures' department .He had earlier talked about reducing auror numbers in the coming years. Let's hope common sense prevails and we don't weaken our auror force.
The meeting room behind the Headmaster's office in Hogwarts was packed with people today. It was the Order of phoenix's first meeting in eight years.
"As you all must have read in yesterday's prophet that seventeen death eaters were killed in Azkaban by some unknown group. This coupled with other incidents that happened earlier in this year and rumours that I have heard makes me believe that a new threat is developing in the horizon." Dumbledore paused and looked at others.
"What other incidents Albus?"Questioned Frank Longbottom.
"As you may recall there were many deaths this year, mostly due to accidents. Also five ministry employees went missing and yesterday seventeen people murdered .Do you see any commonality between the accident victims, missing people, murdered people?"
"Many of them were marked death eaters." replied Severus ,there was now pin drop silence in the room.
"So, Albus what you are saying is that Lucius Malfoy, Crabbe, Goyle, Cauthers didn't die in accident, they were murdered?" questioned Sirius.
"Yes Sirius, that's what it looks like." Answered Albus.
"So whats the big deal about this? Some group is killing both convicted and let off death eaters. Why should we be bothered about this?" questioned Sirius.
"We should be concerned because we don't know the motives of this group .For all we know they may be trying to eliminate the competition. Also morally it is wrong to kill people, the ruthlessness with which group is killing people is unacceptable." Replied Albus
"Speak for yourself Albus. I also don't like killing people, but these death eaters are animals ,who should be put down to prevent innocent people from getting hurt .Had I known that many of death eaters would walk free after the war ,I would have stopped stunning and used only lethal curses during the war."
Sirius's reply shocked all the audience into silence. Albus was the first to recover and replied "Sirius, an eye for eye is never the solution. Once we start going down the violent path there is no coming back."
"What of the rumours you have heard, Albus?" questioned Frank, trying to divert the tension from the room.
"Yes the rumours. Strange rumours have reached me. First one is that Fenrir Greyback and members of his pack who were in hiding recently went underground seven months ago. They had lost contact with their foreign counterparts. Now with this death eater extermination going on, I am assuming that Greyback and his pack also been eliminated by the same group responsible for Azkaban massacre."
"Holy shit, this is the best news I have heard in a long time .Greyback meeting his demise .I must say my respect for this group is increasing minute by minute .Remus, my mate, we must party today. That bastard got his due for what he did to you .Hope they tortured him before they killed him." Exclaimed Sirius.
"Black, keep your childish views to yourself." Snape butted in. Before Sirius could reply back, Remus spoke "Albus, what makes you think Greyback is dead. May be it is his group that is killing all death eaters. He was with Voldemort but he had his own secret agenda of overpowering wizarding world with his werewolves army oneday."
"That is a possibility. There is also the rumour that the many of these accidental victim families had made huge money transfers in the recent past. I think this group killed the husbands, and then made the wives pay the money for allowing them to live." replied Albus.
"So what we have here is an unknown group of people whose motives we don't know. What we know is they are ruthless, collected a lot of money probably for buying an army. One possible candidate for this groups this Greyback's pack."
"Albus you are forgetting the Azkaban breach, Greyback's pack of werewolves may be good fighters, but they couldn't have got past the wards without some powerful wizards .So it must be combo group of wizards and werewolves" said James thoughtfully.
"I think you are looking at this in the wrong way Albus" added Lily who was silent till then. "We must look for simpler explanations first before we think about complex ones. Why it should be dark wizards or dark creatures taking over .How about revenge. May be some family which has suffered in the war at the hands of death eaters, disgusted that the death eaters walked free decided to take revenge on death eaters. Basically what we are looking at is a family or a close group of friends who must have suffered badly in the war."
"Excellent deduction Lily, we must look at your angle also. Nevertheless what I want to convey is we may have to fight again. All of you keep your ears open for any unusual activity. With new information our path may become much clearer."
"Albus you are already talking about fighting. All that this group has done so far is remove the scum from the society. What makes you think they are the new dark group" questioned Sirius.
"Maybe, if you were paying attention, Black, you would have listened about the money collected. Classic sign of army funding." Snape added sarcastically.
"Snivellous, just because you are on the hit list of this group, don't try to turn the order against that group. As for the money ,may be they are cutting off funds available for Voldemort .We know he is out there waiting for right time to come back .He will be in for a shock when he learns that he has no followers and no funds to draw on .This makes perfect sense." Sirius replied
"We haven't declared a war on anyone, Sirius. I am merely asking you all to be vigilant and ready to respond if required."
With that Albus Dumbledore concluded the meeting.
Author Notes:
chrisguy9017: Thanks for the review. Don't worry about the pairing .Harry is just 10 years old now. He won't be looking at a pairing for atleast 5-6 years.
