Chapter 7: Family reunion
A/N: Don't own Hp or Prince of Egypt or any characters.
"I'll read next" Seamus said.
"Family Reunion"
Harry had explained to Arthur and the boys what God had told him to do.
"Well. If that's where God has sent you, you must go" Arthur said.
"Well he's taking it pretty well" Ron said. "Dad would never be like that in real life"
"But who will watch over the sheep?" Harry asked.
"Oh, I'll do it. It'll give me some things to do. I'm only a priest at night, you know. Now go! Set your people free" Arthur said.
Harry smiled and nodded. He and Ginny got a camel and set off for Egypt.
Days went by, and finally they approached the place Harry had once called home.
He saw slaves working, being whipped and abused, but it didn't stop him from stepping to the palace.
Two guards stopped him when he approached the entrance.
"What business do you have here?" A guard said.
"I demand to speak with the Pharaoh" Harry said.
"And you think we will let you in and waste his time?" The guard sneered.
"I have a message for him from God"
"Which one?"
"What does he mean by which one?" Ron asked.
"Back when Pharaohs were rulers of Egypt, the Egyptians worshiped a wide variety of Gods" Hermione explained.
"Oh" Ron said.
"The most powerful one of all"
The guards looked at each other and let him in. Harry and Ginny entered. The room was full of Egyptians, and performers.
The Pharaoh, his brother, Draco sat on the Pharaoh's throne with a boy by his side. He said nothing. He only looked at Harry closely.
"Draco" Harry said.
"Harry?" Draco asked, getting up from his throne. He walked down the stairs to him and smiled wildly.
"Harry!" He shouted while lifting him up in a hug.
Harry and Draco looked at each other. They quickly looked away, knowing that this would never happen in real life.
"Draco!" Harry said back. Draco put him down and said to him, "I thought you were dead!"
"Look at you, a Pharaoh" Harry said, amazed.
"Most likely a horrible one at that" George said with a smile.
Draco glared.
"Well look at you. What on Earth are you dressed as?" He said, referring to Harry's robes.
Harry laughed and hugged Draco again. "Ah Draco, it's so good to see you"
"Not when he's a spoiled git" Ron whispered, so that only the people around him could hear.
"Excuse me uh, your majesty" said Snape, coming behind you. "We are compelled to remind you that this man committed a serious crime against the Gods"
"We are loathed to bring it up, mind you" Filch added.
"But the law clearly the punishment for such a crime"
"Death!" Filch yelled, but had an innocent smile on his face.
Everyone looked horrified and disgusted.
"We hesitate to say" Snape finished.
"Right, like he would hesitate trying to get Harry killed" Dean said.
"Detention, !" Snape said while thinking,"It's not like I don't care about him at all"
Draco held up his hand to stop them from talking.
"Be still. Pharaoh speaks. I am the morning and the evening star"
"Draco" Harry tried to speak, but Draco stopped him.
"It shall be as I say. I pardon forever all crimes for which he stands accused. And we'll have it known that he is our brother, Harry, the prince of Egypt"
Harry only let his head down and said, "Draco. In my heart you are my brother, but things cannot be as they were"
"I see no reason why not" Draco said.
Harry stiffened his look. "You know I am Hebrew, and the God of the Hebrews came to me"
"What?" Draco asked.
"He commands that you let his people go" Harry said.
Draco took a step back. "Commands?"
"Yes. Commands. Do you know the meaning of that word, oh mighty Pharaoh?" Fred asked.
Draco sneered at him. Of course he knew what it meant, but he just never heard it many times in his life.
Harry lifted his staff. "Behold, the power of God" He put it on the ground standing up. It shook and changed into a cobra.
Everyone in the room look at it, amazingly. Draco's smirk on his face didn't change, however.
"Well, uh, impressive. Very well, Harry, I'll play along"
"Play along?" Many people asked.
Snape, Filch, give this snake charmer our answer"
Both smirked and came close to Harry
"So you think you think you've got friends with mighty powers, eh?" Snape asked.
"Well, please forgive our smiles, you'll know what power is when we are done" Filch said
"Pick up your silly twig and come see and watch how a true magician does magic" Snape said.
Both walked to the center of the room. Two guards gave them two sticks.
"By the power of Ra, Mut, Nut, Khnum, Ptah, Nephtys, Nekhbet, Sobek, Sekhment, Sokar, Selket, Reshpu, Wadjet, Anubis, Anukis, Seshmu, Meshkent, Hemsut, Tefnut, Heket, RA!" They both said.
"Wow. These Egyptians worship many Gods" A hufflepuff said.
"And that's only naming a few, there's also Isis, Osiris, Ma'at-" Hermione said until Harry covered her mouth.
"Let's just continue" Harry said.
Hermione shoved Harry's arm away and glared.
Smoke appeared everywhere. When cleared, he saw that the sticks had been replaced with snakes. Everyone applaused.
"Do you see, son?" Snape asked. "Your God's powers are simple. Useless"
"Um, wouldn't it be possible while in the smoke, they could have switched the sticks with the snakes?" A ravenclaw asked.
The both of them let their snakes down and the snakes went to the cobra.
All the snakes had been fighting for a while, but eventually, Harry's cobra had swallowed the other snakes down his throat.
"Not so useless, now huh?" Fred asked.
Harry picked up the cobra and it turned back into the staff. How could he have been so foolish? Using the powers of God himself, to summon a single, simple snake?
Draco came towards Harry, the smirk still on his face, gestured his head to the throne room. Harry followed Draco into the room.
When the door was shut and they were alone, Draco took off the crown on his head, revealing his blond hair. "Alright, Harry, I know you. What is this really about?"
"Really? After years of being away, he comes back performing God's powers and demanding that he set the slaves free and he thinks he's joking around?" Cedric asked.
Harry looked out to the slaves working. He turned to it and said, "Draco, look. What do you see?"
Draco looked and looked way past what Harry was looking at and looked at the temples he had built. "A greater Egypt, than that of my father's"
"How arrogant can one person be?"Someone from hufflepuff asked.
"You have no idea" Harry said.
"That is not what I see" Harry said.
"Well, Harry, I cannot change what you see" Draco said, sitting on his throne. "I have maintain the ancient tradition. I bare the weight of my father's crown"
"Do you still not understand what Lucius was?" Harry asked, amazed.
"He was.. a great leader" Draco said.
"He was a cold-hearted killer" Harry said.
"His hands bore the blood of thousands of children" Harry said.
"Huh, slaves" Draco laughed.
People glared at Draco while he only looked down.
"My people!" Harry practically yelled. "And I can no longer hide in the desert while they suffer. At your hands"
Draco looked as if he had been hit on the face. "So… You have returned. But only to free them"
Harry took off the ring his brother had given him years ago, and put it on the armrest of the throne. "I'm sorry"
Harry felt a little sting at his heart. While the story version of Malfoy was a tyrant, he was his brother in the story.
Draco picked up the ring and stared at it. "Yes, I had hoped" He held the ring close to his face and he closed his eyes for a moment.
When he opened his eyes, they were full of anger and vengeance. He put his crown back on.
"I do not know this God. Neither will I let your people go" Draco said with hatred in his voice.
"Draco, please, you must listen" Harry pleaded.
"I WILL NOT BE THE WEAK LINK!" He yelled.
"What?" People asked. Than they remembered the second chapter.
"Really? You care about what your father thinks of you rather than people's lives?" Dean asked.
Harry stared. "So that's what this is about"
Draco started to leave the room. "Tell your people, as of today, their workload has been doubled. Thanks to your God"
He opened the door. He took one last look at Harry. "Or is it, thanks to you?" He said and closed the door.
"That's the end of the chapter" Seamus said.
