Harry Potter – Shattered Prophecy
A Dragon Age/Harry Potter Crossover
By Insanity Lord
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Chapter 8 – Summertime Adventures Part I
Harry stared at his mother, then at their sleeping 'guest'. "So," he said slowly, "you broke Sirius Black out...and fed him the Elixir of Life."
Morrigan smiled. "Yes. Well, him and Bellatrix. Her 'husband' cursed her with a madness demon. I managed to get rid of it, but she's out cold and won't wake up. She may not wake up for a while, but when she does I'm going to offer her the same thing."
Harry groaned. "Why?"
Morrigan shrugged. "Why not? Sirius is your godfather, Bellatrix is his cousin. They're both from a powerful magical family. Consider the potential they represent as allies."
"Does it even count? James and Lily weren't my parents by blood, and..."
Harry trailed off, thinking. "Actually, you're right. If nothing else, they will make good allies. The problem is that even if you did make him 17 again, he's still a wanted criminal. We need to prove his innocence."
Morrigan smirked. "Oh, that's not a problem. I'm going to 'accidentally' reveal 'Scabbers' for who he is and get the truth. In front of Dumbledore and the Ministry too."
"How?" Harry asked. "We all know how stupid these wizards are. They'll ignore it because it will suit them."
Morrigan's smile was not very nice. "Veritaserum," she said. "We can get the Ministry or Dumbledore to dose him with some and get the full truth."
"That can be countered," Harry said. "If the one taking it is has Occlumency or an antidote."
"Harry, if Pettigrew is hardly that skilled," Morrigan said. "Sirius told me that there's a spell that reveals an animagus form. We just need to use it on the rat."
Harry nodded. "All right, fine. Not that I care either way of course."
Morrigan smirked. "Of course."
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Early the next morning, Harry was woken up by something jumping onto his stomach while he slept. "Oof!"
"Good morning, Harry."
Harry opened his eyes, blinking at the sight of Luna smiling down at him. "Morning..." Harry yawned, "...Luna."
It wasn't unusual for the younger girl to somehow sneak into the house. Somehow she slipped in, past the wards, without being caught.
Harry was completely mystified as to how she pulled it off. Morrigan was too, but she didn't mind since the girl was Harry's friend and wouldn't hurt him.
"Is the sun even up yet?" Harry muttered, rubbing his eyes. "Nevermind, I can tell it isn't...what time is it?"
Luna smiled. "Nearly time for sunrise," she said, jumping off of Harry and landing lightly on her feet. "Are we going to go on adventures?"
Harry sat up, smiling fondly at his friend. "Maybe," he said. Assuming that white-clad being doesn't attack again.
Luna put the reflective glasses on Harry's nose. "The Wrackspurts are trying to get back in," she said with a dreamy smile. "They don't usually bother you though."
Harry rolled his eyes and smiled. "Are you going to stay for breakfast?"
"I would like that, thank you."
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Morrigan wasn't too surprised to find Luna in the living room with Harry. "Good morning, Luna," she said. "...Harry, why are you wearing reflective sunglasses?"
"To keep the Wrackspurts out," Harry said, perfectly serious. "They're afraid of their own reflections."
Morrigan blinked before shrugging. "All right then. I'll start breakfast."
She went to the kitchen.
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Later that day, Ron arrived. "Hey Luna, Harry."
"Hello Ronald," Luna said. "How are you today?"
Ron nodded. "Not bad, Luna," he replied airily, playfully mimicking his friend's usual tone of voice. "You sneak in again?"
Luna smiled. "Yes. I must say, it's been getting harder. Morrigan must have improved her warding."
Harry blinked several times. She has, but how can Luna tell?Even I couldn't until Mother pointed it out.
"Oh, you can tell?" Morrigan asked as she walked in, a book in her hand.
"Morrigan, what's that book?" Harry asked. "It doesn't look like something you would read."
The witch glanced at the book. "Oh, this is a laugh riot by some idiot named Gilderoy Lockhart, Dances with Vampires. It had a compulsion charm on it that seemed to be designed to make me think this fool is the best wizard in the world and become a fangirl of sorts. I removed it and now the book is simply hilarious. There's very little sense in the writing, he jumps from country to country at the blink of an eye, and is often in two or three places at once. Of course, the compulsion charm ensures that nobody sees that."
Ron did a double take. "Gilderoy Lockhart? I know that guy. My mum is a huge-wait, compulsion charms?"
Luna looked up from her copy of the Quibbler. "Oh, yes," she said pleasantly, "my father found those too. I'm amazed that nobody else has, really."
Harry blinked several times. "Um...right. Sure, you...enjoy that, Morrigan. We'll be heading out and looking for an adventure."
Morrigan smiled (something that freaked Ron out to no end no matter how many times he saw it). "I recently found a tunnel west of here. I haven't investigated it yet, but I didn't feel anything dangerous. You can go check that out."
The three children looked at each other. "Sure, that sounds good," Harry said. "Guys?"
Ron shrugged. "Sure, it'll be fun I guess."
Luna smiled. "That will be fun, yes."
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An hour later, the three were standing at the darkened entrance to a tunnel. "Was this here before?" Ron asked. "I don't remember it."
Harry shrugged. "How much do we know about the part of the country we live in really?" he said. "You, Luna, and I are the only wizards living here, and even then we're far away enough from each other that we need to use brooms to get to each other's houses quickly."
"Or we Apparate with our folks," Ron said, nodding. "I see your point. Do we explore? We can't use wands though..."
Harry took out three flash lights. "These are mundane devices called flash lights. Since we won't be using magic, they'll work. You just press this button here to turn it on. To turn it off, you press the same button."
He gave his friends each a flash light and turned his on, heading into the tunnel. Ron shrugged, turned his flash light on, and followed. Luna went in last. The tunnel was damp, dark, and clearly not natural if the wooden posts holding up the walls were any indication. Harry looked around curiously as they walked and soon snorted.
"Morrigan, you liar," he said, amused. "No way she'd ignore this tunnel. There are old runes all over the walls."
Ron blinked. He knew Morrigan, she would never pass up a chance to study anything ancient, magical or otherwise.
"That's just weird, mate."
"Not really," Harry said, examining the runes. "She wanted us to have an adventure, probably. Well, this counts."
Luna looked at the runes closely. "Do you think there's something here?" she asked dreamily. "Deeper in perhaps?"
Harry grinned and looked at his two friends before looking down the dark tunnel. He had no idea what could possibly be waiting for them, but really, he wasn't worried if Morrigan thought it was safe.
Then again, Morrigan's idea of 'safe' was basically 'whatever she, and therefore Harry, could kill in a fight'.
Then again, the woman had fought, killed, and survived Darkspawn in a war years ago. Really, what kind of threat could the 'dangerous magical creatures' of Magical England possibly be after that?
"Come on," he said. "We have a tunnel to explore."
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Author's Notes: Sorry for the wait, but I was having problems plotting (if you can call it that) this little 'filler arc'. Although everything that happens in this arc will probably be relevant to the story. Maybe.
