Chapter six

'So when he said you were dead and Hagrid carried you out, is that why?'

'Yeah, when he called a halt in the fighting and told us to dispose of our dead then wanted me to go to him, I wasn't going to, I still had the snake to kill. The three of us saw Snape dying, but just before he died he gave me his memories. We went back to the castle, Ron and Hermione went to be with the rest of the Weasley's because of Fred. I just couldn't face them at the time, so I needed information and went up to speak with Dumbledore's portrait but they were all empty. I wasn't planning on watching that memory Kingsley, I only did because I was willing to try anything so no one else died. It was luck that let me find the diadem of Ravenclaw, so it was just out of sheer desperation that I decided to watch Snape's memory. At first it was just about Snape and my mother, he was in love with her, had been since they were kids. So I got to see a lot of them and dad, Sirius and Remus as well. Then near the end Dumbledore is explaining to Snape about me,' Harry put his hand to his head, 'This was caused because of the horcrux, not surviving the killing curse,' Harry unbuttoned his shirt and pulled it aside, 'This was caused when the horcrux was destroyed. I can't survive the killing curse like the death eaters think I can, it's all because of the horcrux.'

'Don't let any death eaters know that, their scared of you at the moment even if they still want to kill you. That's one thing they all say when we question them, Potter can survive the killing curse, we saw it.'

'Now you know why and why you can't say anything. Dumbledore took any book that mentioned horcrux out of the Hogwarts library when he became headmaster. He was good friends with the minister back then and that minister removed all books on horcrux from the ministry library and had them destroyed. Dumbledore got rid of any books that mentioned that word, but he never destroyed his, he kept them for research, Hermione's got them at the moment. But we're giving them back to Professor McGonagall.'

'No wonder I couldn't find anything on horcrux after you said it that night. I went into the ministry library which I'm sure you know is larger than the Hogwarts library, nothing, not one word on horcrux. But if there was any I'd be destroying them as well. So Voldemort never knew about you, how come?'

'When he went to make that sheath into one, as you know he killed mum first but because she refused to move from in front of me, it gave me a protection. So as he was going to use my death to make his sixth, it basically went into me why his killing curse backfired onto him making his body disappear but alive. One thing that made me curious about all that Kingsley and you might know why, that night, he had his bone handled wand, after his body disappeared he couldn't hold his wand or the sheath. So how did he get his wand, Pettigrew gave it to him that night in the graveyard?'

'Harry, I never thought about that, but you're right.' Hermione said.

'A wand can be charmed to always return to its rightful owner, so Voldemort might not have believed he could die, but anyone can still be disarmed. He could have protected his wand so even if he got disarmed, it would still come back to him. It's a very rare and tricky spell, but not impossible. Most people don't bother, they just get another wand. You realise that his wand is yours now, don't you?'

'Yeah, but I don't want it, that wand killed my parents and thousands of others. I like my wand, always did. But I have three wands at the moment.'

'Three, why do you have three wands?'

'My phoenix feather wand I got from Ollivander, then I disarmed Draco Malfoy the night we escaped from Malfoy Manor and another wand he own but never knew he owned, so three,' Harry shrugged.

'Hang on Harry, you also disarmed Voldemort and he was using another wand, not his, so that's five wands that you own.'

'No, the wand Voldemort used that night was the wand that Draco Malfoy owned for a while but he never knew he owned it, so four wands.'

'But I recognised that wand Harry, it was Dumbledore's wand. So you told me Draco disarmed Albus the night he died, but Minerva put his wand in the tomb with Albus. His tomb was broken and his wand was gone, Minerva told me about it. Voldemort broke open the tomb to get Albus's wand, why?'

'More dangerous information Kingsley and not just dangerous to me, to anyone I'm close to. If any of those found out they could take and torture my friends to make me tell them.'

'We're not going to say anything Harry, you know you can trust us.'

Harry looked at Ron and Hermione again, 'I do trust Kingsley, but it could put him in danger as well, then there are your parents Ron, the Grangers not so much as their non-magical.'

'If they knew and that information got out, then they will know to be extra careful.' Hermione said.

'Still a know it all Hermione, but you're right,' Harry turned back and looked at the Weasley's, Kingsley and David, 'Have any of you heard of the deathly hallows?' they all shook their heads, 'You know the story of the three brothers though, don't you?'

'All magical people know that story, I read it to my kids,' Molly said.

'My parents read it to me, it's like a tradition in our world to have those stories read to children.'

'Hermione and I never knew the story, well Hermione found out after Dumbledore left her his book in his will. But I only heard it for the first time why we were away. Mr. Lovegood had a symbol around his neck at Bill's wedding, then we kept seeing the symbol, Hermione get the book to show everyone it will make it easier to explain.'

Hermione nodded then summoned her beaded bag, 'Accio Tales of Beadle the Bard,' the book flew out of the bag and landed in Hermione's hand, then she opened the page to show everyone the symbol.

'I've seen that before, but I have no idea what it meant.'

'It's the symbol of the deathly hallows,' Harry put his finger on the picture, 'The line represents a wand, the triangle represents a cloak of invisibility, the circle represents the resurrection stone. In the story of the three brothers, they outsmarted death who rewarded them with those three items. The eldest brother got the wand made from an elder tree, the middle brother the stone, the third brother got death's own cloak of invisibility,' Harry waved his hand and his bag landed in front of him, then pulled out his cloak, 'My father owned that, his father before him and Sirius told me his father before owned it. My father had been trying to find out how old it was. But look at it Kingsley, Hermione, Ron and I used that a lot, from what Sirius said, dad used it all the time and so did the order of the phoenix.'

Kingsley pulled the cloak to him then carefully studied the cloak, 'There's not a mark on it. We found Mad-Eye's one, it has holes in it and the charm is fading, yours is perfect. Are you saying those three items were real, that's it not a story?'

'The only part we don't know is if they were given by death or they might have just been gifted wizards, Dumbledore believes they were just gifted. But those three items are the deathly hallows and when united they make the owner master of death. Now the wand, Dumbledore's wand, well my wand is the same wand, it's the legendary elder wand, the death stick, the unbeatable wand. I've hidden it and no one will ever find it. I was thinking of destroying it, but couldn't bring myself to destroy Dumbledore's wand.'

'Now I know why he broke open Albus' tomb, but you beat him and he had the unbeatable wand, so that part of the legend must not be true.'

'It's true and there's a reason why I was able to beat him. But first, Dumbledore won the wand from Grindlewald, but Grindlewald stole the wand, never won it. Ollivander said the wand will work like any wand, but if you win the wand you get the power of the elder wand. Draco disarmed Dumbledore the night he died remember, I disarmed Draco at Malfoy Manor. Voldemort took the wand out of Dumbledore's hands. When he realised the wand wasn't working like he thought it would, he killed Snape because Snape killed Dumbledore, but he had already been disarmed. So Voldemort believed he had the power of the wand. When we faced each other in the great hall, I tried to tell him, but I don't think he really believed me. So that's why I said the disarming charm which hit his killing curse. The wand he was using refused to kill it's owner so it backfired onto him, not me the owner.'

'Blimey Harry, you own the elder wand, now I know why you're so blasted powerful. It's not just your power emerging from not having a horcrux inside you anymore, it's also because you combined those three items. Both things have caused you to literally tap into more power than anyone has ever done before, even more so than Dumbledore.'

Hermione, Ron, Molly, Arthur and David all stared at Harry in shock, the Grangers still looked confused, but Harry knew they would hear and understand everything, eventually. Harry didn't know what to think, but if he had a lot of power, he was going to use it to make sure their world was always safe, along with his friends.