AN: Prompt: Halloween.

Endless love to Caz.


Then one night, on Halloween, the man that could trace his roots to Salazar Slytherin fell from grace at the hands of a baby. And I had been thankful that this event occurred, knowing full well that he would come back, but Tom Marvolo Riddle who called himself Lord Voldemort had forgotten about the old cursed key with intricate designs that opened the cage of the infected Umgubular Slashkilter.

The trials began and the Unspeakable who was a Death Eater was sent to Azkaban. And for a while, magical Britain was safe. And it was time for a new Minister for Magic to be appointed.

Everyone was rooting for Albus Dumbledore. Cornelius Fudge, the man who lived with envy, was also a candidate. His plan was to become Minister for Magic. Bartemius Crouch Sr. was out of the competition for sending his own son to Azkaban, and that only left Dumbledore and Fudge. History says that Albus Dumbledore never expressed any desire to take the Minister's job, so Cornelius took the post instead.

Well history never says that Cornelius Fudge actually menaced the great Albus Dumbledore.

After Augustus Rookwood found the cursed golden key along with the cage, he had gone to Fudge with the news. All Rookwood knew about the key and creature was of their whereabouts. That was it. He never was part of the team of Unspeakables that investigated this old key along with the creature. Cornelius Fudge was well informed and knew exactly what this creature was capable of, but couldn't un-curse the damn key.

Cornelius Fudge went to Hogwarts and told Dumbledore if he was smart enough, if he preferred to have the life he was accustomed to, then he would think twice about running for Minister. After all, the people wouldn't want a leader who was responsible for a deadly creature like the Umgubular Slaskilter. It was Albus and Grindelwald's experiment before Albus went to the "light" side and Albus would not want to risk his neck, would he? And Fudge had proof of Dumbledore's friendship with Grindelwald. He could easily show the whole world that instead of Dumbledore destroying the creature he had kept it alive all these years.

Albus' blue eyes twinkled. "I can't make you think otherwise. I have much more important matters than what you're worried about."

With that he showed Fudge the door.

And yes, Dumbledore was focused on the baby who had defeated Tom Riddle, the baby who was now much older. Albus was so confident that no one would un-curse this key, that Lord Voldemort was completely obsessed with killing this half-blood baby, that he didn't think of the possibilities of what would happen if someone actually opened the cage that held the horrible Slashkilter.

Dumbledore only thought of the deaths that Riddle could cause, not thinking of the extinction of the human race which the Umgumbular Slashkilter could cause with a simple bite. Some people are just too preoccupied in their own heads, not knowing the full potential of death, of risk.

So Cornelius Fudge became Minister for Magic and he was happy for some time, because wizarding Britain was safe and he had power over them, and Albus Dumbledore would never get his old wrinkly hands on the Minister's table.

Fudge ordered that the creature stay locked up, along with the golden key, and that the investigation still run its course.

As I have said before, the few Unspeakables that knew of the Umgubular Slashkilter's existence questioned Fudge's sanity. But those few still wanted a job so kept quiet and did as they were told, discovering even more deadly facts about the horrid creature, but less on how to un-curse or destroy the golden key. Perhaps it was better that way – why would they want to open that cage? But they really wanted to destroy that key, so the creature could forever be locked up and never bite and infect a human being.

Cornelius Fudge, being a pureblood supremacist at heart, had been fooled by Lucius Malfoy, a pureblood, a Death Eater, who had money and power, more power and respect than even the Blacks. The Malfoys were the pureblood family of the era. And of course, Fudge wanted to be in the good graces of this pureblood family to keep receiving gold from Lucius Malfoy. Fudge told his benefactor at one of the various parties that the Malfoys held in their Manor in Wiltshire, England about the creature he had in his hands.

Fudge told Lucius about the cursed key, the creature's name, its whereabouts, and the virus it had and what it could cause. Of course his system was filled with the finest and most expensive alcohol the Malfoys could buy.

At the time, Lucius had thought that Fudge was really drunk and had laughed at the possibility of the existence of this key and creature. He had even joked with some of his fellow Death Eaters who had also avoided Azkaban. And of course, dear Lucius Malfoy had thought that no one was listening.

The man who married my niece heard what they had talked about, and thought it was no joke. Xenophilius Lovegood believed in the myth that everyone used to whisper about. A golden cursed key with designs that opened the cage of an Umgubular Slashkilter.

And as he was the editor-in-chief of The Quibbler, the news spread like wildfire.

Unfortunately for him, no one believed him – except for a few. And they should have believed him. Xenophilius had researched thoroughly and had found out about the virus. What it could do to a human being. He knew that a simple golden cursed key was the lifeline of humanity – magical and Muggle alike.

He even had the courage to go to a Muggle community and investigate the creature the Muggles knew so much about, and had compiled a list, so his fellow wizards and witches could be safe. They would be able to defend themselves. When the time came for Fudge or anybody else to open this cage, they would be prepared.

Xenophilius told the wizarding community about the creature, about how Cornelius Fudge had control of it, but everyone just laughed, telling him that he was a loon, that this time he had gone too far.

Well, whoever said that must regret it now.

But of course happiness was soon to end for our Minister for Magic when Lord Voldemort returned more powerful than ever.

For this, Fudge lost favor in the community and quickly was replaced, and he finally had no power and no control over the golden key and deadly creature.

Finally Cornelius Fudge was frightened.


AN: Sorry this wasn't uploaded in May. Be expecting ch.4 and 5 up by this month. Please review, it brings smiles to C.G.'s face :D