A Potter for Each

Summery: WBWL, After believing his brother to be dead for three years Alex discovers that his twin Harry is in fact alive and a deatheater. When Harry unwillingly answers his question of why how will the supposed Boy Who Lived react, has the world's actions come back to kill them all? Dark!Harry

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Chapter six: Sickening Discoveries

Winter break came and Harry, of course, didn't go home. A couple of the Slytherin's offered to stay with him but he declined those offers in polite Slytherin fashion as well as the offers for him to go home with them. It was actually a rather boring series of memories to watch, just my brother in the library being his old nearly-Ravenclaw self, and if it weren't for the colors proudly shown on his robes I would have been able to pretend he was simply a bird instead of a snake.

On Christmas he received small yet significant presents from his three friends and one mysterious package that came from "Your Equal". On the bright side, it seems I now know where the true sixth horcrux had ended up being hidden...

...How had I not noticed that the locket Harry always wore around his neck looked exactly like the one everyone had been searching for over the past two or three years?

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Suddenly it is the end of the year and I see myself standing in the chamber that ended my journey down the third floor corridor. Surprised I turn around to see that the interaction, at least from this point, had been witnessed by a third party: Harrison James Potter.

"Well?" Said Quirrel impatiently "What do you see?"

"I see myself shaking hands with Dumbledore, I-I've won the house cup for Gryffindor."

Seeing myself now I cringe at how obviously I had lied back then.

I had seen what I had once thought to be a "Perfect" family. Myself standing in front of my parents with smiles on our faces and the knowledge tugging in the back of my mind that Harry had never even been born... If I stood in front of Erised now, would that image have changed?

I'd like to tell myself that it probably would but I'm actually not so sure...

I also see myself pull the stone out of my pocket and when my mirror self puts it back it materializes in the real world somehow. (I really need to find out how that actually happened.)

Then the whole 'Voldemort is on the back of Quirrel's head' thing happens and suddenly his words make sense.

"Don't be a fool Potter, give me the stone. I could make you great. There's still a chance, slim as it may be, for you to truly be my equal." He hisses at my eleven year old self, Harry hasn't moved from where he is standing in the shadows but his eyes are trained on the monster. The killing curse colored orbs shinning with a hope that makes me feel sick to my stomach.

"What are you talking about?!" My younger self demands and I shake my head, how could I have not seen it? How could everyone have been so wrong.

Voldemort's laughter fills the chamber, "You really don't know? Did the Old Coot really think I wouldn't notice?" Suddenly the laughter stops and his voice turns ice cold. "Kill him."

Quirrel is choking my younger self to death as Harry watched, obviously unsure of what to do. He raises his wand and mutters a spell that manages to end the professor's/Voldemort's hold on me... but also knocks me unconscious. The stone I had been pulling out of my pocket to defend myself with now clattering to his feet. Picking it up my brother turns it over in his hands, examining it.

Voldemort's eyes land on Harry and he smiles.

"Finally, give me the stone Harry Potter." he hisses, stretching his hand out for the stone and for a second my brother looks like he actually might hand it over to him."

"I could make you great you know. Together, side by side, just like the prophecy foretells. With me we could rule the world and everyone would pay for the way they have mistreated you. We're the same you see-"

He is cut off by Dumbledore and Snape entering as the scene comes to an end.

I no longer know what to think. I've only seen the first year of Hogwarts and yet all of the constints in my life have been not only threatened, but uprooted. All I know is that I'm afraid, the security that I had originally walked to the forest with gone out from under me. Which blow was worse? That I was not actually the true Boy-Who-Lived...

...Or the hesitant hope that had resided in Harry's eyes as he listened to Voldemort's little speech?

I think I'm about to be sick.

Hello Everyone! I hope you like A Potter For Each so far. The reason it took so long is because of writers block caused by a few reviews that I ended up ignoring in order to finally type this out. However, I shall now cast a vote because of those reviews so that they aren't completely ignored as every review I receive is amazing and special to me. Should I continue as planned and have Alex (And thus us) watch the story of Harry's life through Hogwarts and up until the present, or should he simply return to the present now that he knows what he does? As mentioned, all reviews are cherished and considered, Until next time...

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