Raised by Darkness: Chapter 4
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"How was Draco?" Lucy asked as she glided a few centimetres above the ground,
"He's fine but there was something" Harry told her explaining the events in the shop, Lucy sounded conflicted suddenly
"Stay away from him Harry, If what their minds said is true then you need to be careful about who you trust at Hogwarts" Lucy warned, she had suspected Dumbledore of a lot of things recently and had overheard many conversations between prisoners about him, Never the less she didn't wand her adopted child anywhere near him
"I will Lucy, I didn't like him much and his mother was getting money for him to be friends with me" Harry explained
"It's a good thing you already have friends then, now the boy, at Hogwarts he may follow you and if he does don't cause him any pain, reading his thoughts fine, manipulating his mind fine but causing any pain through your powers except in self-defence is out of the question" she told him gently, Harry nodded,
"So what else to we need to get?" he asked,
"Well Harry why don't you go to flourish and blots to get some books while I have a look for an owl?" Lucy suggested, she had wanted to get him something for a while now and with the money provided she wouldn't have to suffer any of them annoying Ministry owls.
"Yes please" Harry exclaimed immediately, Lucy would have smiled if she had a real mouth as she gave him three gold coins.
The book shop was large and Harry had never seen so many books, some he had seen an Draco's and others had been presents over the years but with the money bulging in his pocket he couldn't decide what book to get, then he saw someone. She was about his age and had brown bushy hair and her front teeth that stuck out slightly, she seemed alone and was looking for something
"Hello, are you ok" he asked concerned about her being alone, she turned to him with something of a confused expression
"Yes I'm fine, do you know where this book is?" she asked handing him a sheet of paper, Harry looked at it
"Defensive spells, oh it's there" he proclaimed loudly pointing to a book on the high shelf, The girl's face fell slightly
"How do I get up there?" she wondered "should I ask someone?" Harry shook his head
"I can reach" he assured her, she looked ready to respond but she was speechless as Harry glided up to the shelf, grabbed the book and handed it to her
"Here you go" he told her relived he could help in some way
"How did you do that?" the girl asked interested, "Professor McGonagall said she could only fly with a broom and you're my age". Harry smiled, the girl was very much like him, wanting to know everything she could about everything
"Well it's a long story" he began… then an elderly witch materialised from behind them
"Miss Granger have you found the book?" she asked, the girl held it up. Harry turned to greet the woman
"Are you Professor McGonagall?" he asked, the woman nodded then noticed his scar
"Harry Potter!" she stammered "but I thought Hagrid was taking you". She seemed to be talking to herself more than him but Harry replied
"No Lucy took me" he told her, then he turned back to the girl "I'm Harry by the way" thinking it rude to not introduce himself
"Hermione Granger" the girl replied as a loud crack filled the room
"Harry" came an old voice, Harry turned to see a robed elderly man with a long white beard, he instantly searched through the man's mind
"So you are Dumbledore" he realised, he was instantly suspicious. Sirius and Bella had told him to be cautious of the seemingly caring but manipulative man
"I've been looking for you for a while, now where is the person escorting you, I need to ask them to return you to the Dursley's to ensure the wards do not fail. Harry felt a jolt of fear but ignored it, he decided he was out of his depth and sent a mental message to Lucy, he felt a dark power from her
"No" Harry told the man coldly
"Mr Potter please addresses the headmaster with respect" McGonagall remarked, Harry ignored her
"But don't you miss your relatives" Dumbledore asked, Harry suddenly remembered something
"You are breaking several Ministry mandated laws and in a few moments someone will be along" he warned, Dumbledore seemed annoyed by this
"Who told you that!" he demanded letting his grandfatherly persona slip, Hermione shrunk into the background slightly. Harry seemed calmer now and he reached inside the two professors minds, he quickly set up a shield preventing them from thinking any thoughts that could produce the spell that could harm Lucy, he felt her anger as she approached. The old man seemed ready to draw his wand, Harry thought he might stun him and take him back to privet drive so he quickly rose in the air. This provoked a gasp from McGonagall and Dumbledore raised his eyebrows in curiously, before he had time to go for his wand, McGonagall clutched her forehead and Dumbledore's eyes stopped twinkling, Harry lowered himself and grabbed Hermione arm, making her immune to the angry Dementor
I thought it was made very clear to leave him alone Harry could hear her voice projected into their minds, Hermione heard it to as she clutched onto Harry's arm as the black cloaked monster approached
"Surely Fudge did not send a Dementor to watch the boy" Dumbledore demanded, Harry saw his mind reach for a happy thought but Harry's well placed shield prevented him
Watch him I raised him Lucy was furious now and it was only experience that kept the two professors from feeling pain
"What" Dumbledore demanded angrily,
Watch was all Lucy said as she forced Harry's memories into their minds, it only took a few seconds but McGonagall was enraged
"Albus how dare you" she shrilled "You promised he would be safe". Dumbledore thought for a response for a moment, Harry grabbed a book from a shelf and looked to Hermione
"Shall I see you on the train?" he asked, the girl seemed to be frightened at what she was seeing but looked to Harry, he saw in her mind she had never had many friends
"Ok" she muttered meekly as the two teachers argued
"See you then" Harry said brightly, the girl spirit's lifted by his mood and Harry thought it would be fair to increase her happiness, he did so and turned to the two professors
"I insist Harry return with me" Dumbledore was saying,
"OVER MY DEAD BODY" McGonagall screeched "You tricked me into putting him there once, and I would rather he go with this Dementor than you". Her fury was unprecedented and Harry thought she was giving Lucy and run for her money
"Miss Granger we are leaving" she said, Hermione waved Harry goodbye as she half walked, half dragged out of the shop. Dumbledore turned to Harry but Lucy had taken a firm hold of his hand, without a further word to the professor they left the shop knowing without a Patronus he had no way to stop them
"Thank you for calling Harry, and well done for not attacking, your raw anger has been known to cause damage" Harry shuddered, Lucy had once taken him to a playground, some of the boys were Dudley's friends and he saw them picking on a little girl, apparently Lucy had broken some kind of restriction on his magic and his emotions took over, he lifted up the boys and threw them across the playground without even approaching, he asked the little girl if she was ok and she meekly thanked him before running off. Lucy had begun teaching him Dementor magic that day and he had learned to control it, He had used much magic but he had a much more powerful version of Dementor Telekinesis and mind control something Lucy and him had kept well hidden in fear he would be studied by the ministry. Then a white own flew onto his arm
"Oh sorry Harry, this is your owl, she seemed to be eager to leave and she seemed like something you'd like" Lucy informed him as the owl affectionately nestled into his shoulder
"Hedwig" he decided, the owl seemed to approve of the name, he looked at her fondly
"Mr Potter" came McGonagall voice, Lucy was instantly on the defensive and stared at her warningly, Harry turned to her, the bushy haired was nowhere to be seen
"I would like to apologise if I knew anything about how you were treated I would have raised you myself" she proclaimed "I am so sorry I never checked on you". Harry saw the woman's agitation and guilt
"It's not your fault Professor" he told her "You tried to stop me going there, and they chose to treat me like that". McGonagall seemed amazed
"How did you know?" she asked,
"I saw your memories" he told her removing the mind shield from earlier
"How?" she asked still confused, Harry tapped his head
"I can, Dementor magic I think" he told her, he left out the part of him lifting things up with his mind and controlling minds, she seemed more confused
"But I have to go know but I will see you at school, goodbye" he said brightly, Lucy took his hand
"Now put all your things into this bag" she instructed opening a small enchanted bag, Harry complied
"Good let's go" she told him, He waved to McGonagall and enjoyed her astonished face as he once again rose in the air and with Lucy by his side and Hedwig following behind flew off into the sky.
The boy who lived flies!
It seems the boy who lived finally makes an appearance in Wizarding society with him preforming a miracle in the world of magic, eyewitness reports depict him flying to and from Diagon Alley with a Dementor from Azkaban. Is this where Dumbledore sent Harry Potter, to the Dementors? And how did he breach one of the laws of magic? The must be something extraordinary about the boy who lived
"Front page every day for two weeks" Draco remarked, the two boys were flying on the family Quidditch pitch with Draco on a broom and Harry hovering next to him
"You really think they'd have better things to do" Harry muttered, Draco laughed
"Yeah Rita Skeeter wants to report on normal people when a half Dementor swoops in" he commented, "and apparently you were seen with a muggle born student whom I quote you showed a lot of interest in" Draco was laughing now
"I'm a bit young for romance" Harry muttered "Besides she was very nice".
"Don't let father hear you say that" Draco whispered "he still thinks we hate them". Harry and Draco spent many weeks discussing the purity of blood, both came to the conclusion they vowed never to share that apart from wealth blood had no matter. Harry sometimes wondered what Draco would be like if they had never met: would he have the same views on muggle borns or his fathers?
"Don't worry Harry that blond witch will have better things to talk about soon, I mean everyone thinks Dumbledore sent you to Azkaban as a child, Fudge won't comment either way, well his job is a risk if he does and he's fine with Dumbledore getting grief for leaving a child with monsters, which is partly right". Draco had limited knowledge of Harry's time with the Dursley's and Harry refused to discuss it in depth, all Draco knew was they were barbaric. Lucius had discussed it with him when he first met Harry in Azkaban and Harry found he got on well with the man.
"So Hogwarts only a few more days" Draco remarked longingly, Harry shared his feelings,
"You better be a seeker for Slytherin I mean you can fly! You could get that snitch in a second" Draco moaned, Harry loved Quidditch but he wasn't sure about flying in front of the whole school
"It's not against the rules, you can't fly on anything but a broomstick and you don't need that" Draco reasoned,
"You'd make a good chaser" Harry complimented remembering his friends superb goals when they played
"Well, after flying lessons I wouldn't be surprised if you get an instant promotion to seeker and I want to see the teacher's face when you complete the course with no broom" Draco snickered,
"Anyway when you leaving?".
"Tomorrow, hopefully Aunt Bella will have calmed down about me having the Voldemort's wands twin" Harry told him, the second Bella found out she was tearful saying Harry was going to be a great wizard like the Dark Lord and the twin wand's would only ever choose great wizards". Draco laughed
"Yeah I can imagine her doing that, anyway how about a game?" Harry nodded and the two flew off towards the goal posts.
Five Days Later
"Have you got all your books" Lucy asked, Harry nodded as they walked through the train station, he didn't speak much as muggle's couldn't see her and it looked like he was talking to himself
"And your clothes" she asked again worry evident in her voice, he nodded again
"Hedwig's food? Wand? Money?" Harry nodded to all three as they descended down a flight of stairs, a few people he could identify as Wizards were staring at them,
"Ok, but if you need anything tell me and I'll owl it" Lucy informed him as Harry pushed his trolley,
"Platform Nine and Three Quarters so I'm assuming this wall" she continued, Sirius told him he had to run through an invisible wall so he would be best to get that wall right or he might hurt himself. Harry saw the red haired boy running towards the same wall, he vanished
"Yep that would be it" he said aloud, Lucy glided towards it
"Ok Take a bit of a run up" she called over to him, Harry saw the wall and began to run, at first he went slowly but got faster and faster, he momentarily wondered if he had the wrong wall when he found himself facing a vibrant red steam train, Lucy appeared behind him
"Ok, well I suppose this is it" she began "Will your write and send mind messages"
"Of course I will, I'll miss you too much if I don't and I'll come home for Christmas" Harry promised as he pulled his trunk into one of the luggage compartments. Lucy stared at him
"You are so grown up, I remember when we first met" she told him
"So do I, that was the first day anyone was really kind to me" he comforted her, suddenly her skeletal hands were wrapped around him. Harry was shocked for a moment as was every person on the platform as they saw a Dementor hug the boy who lived and then after it wore of hugged it back. Harry was amazed he had hugged Lucy before but he had always initiated it , when she spoke she sounded want could only be described as tearful
"I'll miss you" she choked out
"I will to" Harry comforted her, then she regained herself
"Anyway of you go, enjoy yourself" she told him, Harry waved at her as he boarded the first steps of the train
"Goodbye Mum" he whispered to himself, but Lucy heard, she stood up straight and Harry could feel both shock and pride as he waved at her,
"Goodbye Son" she whispered waving back as Harry boarded the train, he leaned out the window and waved and as the train began to move Lucy watched as her son vanished from view.