Chapter Ten: In the Graveyard:
We found the last book! Now none can even try to make this abomination, the devil is bound! Is he Harry, is he really? The human race is doomed and it will not matter if the devil is bound!
Harry was worried, he had been all day, it was a few days before he would head out on the Hogwarts express home for the summer and Voldemort had not yet made any move. Harry closed the book he had been trying to read and put it back on the shelf before he left the library only to very nearly run into a wall of black robes. He muttered an apology to Severus Snape and made to move around him when Collin Creevy came up grinning. Harry saw he had a book he had borrowed from Harry and Harry thinking nothing of it grabbed it. Severus had put a hand on his shoulder with a warning as he felt something was very wrong but it was too late, in a flash Harry felt the tug of a portkey and he swore violently. He managed to land on his feet and saw they were on the edge of the same graveyard that had haunted his dreams for years in the future.
"Oh damn, not good, not good." Harry muttered.
"Get behind me Potter." Severus said.
"Sorry sir but not going to do that." Harry said his wand at Severus's throat, "can't let you blow your cover now can we?"
"What do you mean you foolish child, remove that wand from my neck you vile little boy!" Severus snarled.
"No, this is my fight, not yours sir." Harry said taking out his handcuffs and for someone who had never used them he got them on Severus quickly, "you can kill me later."
"Don't you dare, don't you dare play the hero you brat!" Severus said, "you dare bind me, when we get back to the school I will see you pay! You cannot treat me this way!"
"I am sorry sir, I really am, but this is the only way to keep you alive." Harry said quietly, "trust me I have an idea of what I am doing."
Harry knew Severus might never forgive him for this, that he might have gone too far. He drug Severus to a gravestone and made him stay there, taking his wand of course. Harry threw on his invisibility cloak and moved through the graveyard, he saw Bellatrix by the cauldron with a bound hooded form kneeling by her, Harry saw Rabastan and separated his head from his shoulders. He had moved on to Jugson before Bellatrix had any idea he was there. It was then Bellatrix played her card and removed the hood from the figure and forced Mrs. Figg to her feet. Harry wanted to get sick, this was not suppose to happen, not this, not her.
"No more games Potter, you show yourself or I kill her!" Bellatrix said.
"What are you doing here?" Harry said moving so that Bellatrix could not pinpoint him, "why the cauldron, what is the bundle?"
"Show me the boy." The bundle said.
"Oh it's you!" Harry said refusing to let fear enter his voice, "you have a body now, but how?"
"No not a full body boy, but I will." Voldemort said, " and you will help me."
"What do I get in return?" Harry asked. "I do this you give me Mrs. Figg unharmed and alive."
"A vial of your blood for her freedom, health and life." Voldemort said, "and you will duel me."
"Swear it." Harry said, "swear it on your magic."
"I Voldemort…."
"No you don't!" Harry said knowing that Voldemort would try this to get out of the oath, "your real name."
"Fine boy! I Tom Marvolo Riddle do swear to let Arbela Figg go free with life and full health in exchange for you facing me alone in a duel and a vial of your blood."
"Fine, but I use my own knife, don't know where dear Bella puts hers."
Harry had no choice, but he could still kill the bastard once this was all over. He watched as Bella lowered the thing that was Voldemort into the cauldron and added powder from a grave that was bone of the father, her own left hand and the vial of Harry's blood. Harry had to watch as Voldemort rose from the cauldron naked as the day he was born, it proved yes he was male. Bellatrix robed him and Voldemort nodded to Bellatrix to let Mrs. Figg go, she did and Mrs. Figg made her way by Harry. Voldemort saw the bound form of Severus and walked up to him and took in what appeared to be a faithful death eater. He was interrupted by a cry of pain and turned to see Rudolphus place the Crucio curse on Mrs. Figg. With a howl of rage and fury Harry lashed out and with a slicing move removed Rudolphus' wand arm and on the back stroke from his sword took his head. He knelt by Mrs. Figg and saw she was still trembling in pain, still she managed to reach a hand up to his face and trace her hand along his cheek.
"My brave boy, do not worry for me, I have lived a long good life." Mrs. Figg said.
"No, you cannot die, no! Please no you cannot die!" Harry said tears falling from his eyes.
"Awe is bitty Potter upset?" Bellatrix mocked, "she was easy to find, nosey brats very helpful. That mudblood boy helped so much and he did not even know who he was helping!"
"You bitch." Harry snarled, "you foul evil hag!"
Something was happening to Voldemort but Harry did not care, Voldemort was screaming in pain, he had dropped his wand. Harry continued to hold Mrs. Figg, the Crucio curse was not suppose to do this! Yet Mrs. Figg was old, very old and her heart could not handle the pain inflicted on her. She breathed her last in the arms of a boy she had helped raise as much as she could and loved as much as her own. Harry held her close and screamed to the heavens in anguish tears streaming down his face. There were pops all around and Aurors were there, spells flew and a cackle of laughter told him Bellatrix had escaped. Someone was by him, someone in dark robes trying to tell him something. He shoved Severus away refusing to let Mrs. Figg go, she just could not be dead, once more Severus grabbed his arm and gently laid Mrs. Figg on the ground closing her eyes and covering her with his masters robes. Harry turned and found himself in Severus's arms sobbing his heart out, he did not register the fact that standing over them and a kneeling Voldemort was the furious form of one Albus Dumbledore.
"So Tom it comes to this?" Dumbledore said glaring down at the defeated dark lord, "such a waste, you could have been great you know."
"I am great!" Voldemort said.
"No you bastard, you broke your word, you swore on your magic she would live!" Harry said getting up, tears still streaming down his face "tell me does she live?"
"You tricked me!" Voldemort hissed.
"No, you made a vow, a promise on your magic she would have her freedom, her life and health!" Harry shouted, "you bastard it's your fault she is dead!"
"He is right, you have no magic now." Dumbledore said.
"Throw him to the Dementors, he is mortal now." Harry said getting up, he saw Nagini and before Dumbledore could stop him and removed the snakes head, "oh yes, I have some things of yours you bastard!"
"No, no!" Voldemort screamed, "you can't, no one knows!"
"I know, my mother told me, when I died last summer, I found where each was and what they were." Harry said dumping each Horcrux before the evil dark lord, "you are mortal and as good as a muggle, in fact I you will live, oh yes you will, and I promise you will work hard until the day you die."
"Severus, my loyal servant help me!" Voldemort said he turned to where Rookwood stood bound surrounded by Aurors, "Rookwood!"
"So no magic my lord?" Severus mocked, "my, my well then Tom that means you are no longer a dark lord and I am not bound to a pathetic creature like you."
"I cannot serve you, no magic you see." Rookwood said, "no power, rather serve Potter, he does not break his word, but it's Azkaban for me now."
Harry turned from the sight of Voldemort and knelt by Mrs. Figg again, the times he had with her flashed before his eyes. He was a scared boy the first time he remembered being with her, she fed him well and taught him to read. Most weekends he was there away from his aunt and she never knew he loved being with Mrs. Figg as she cared for him and taught him many things. She taught him how to play piano and guitar, she taught him Latin and some French, she taught him how to sew and how to care for her many cats. She had sent letters to him each year at Christmas telling him how much she cared about him and wished he was her son. Now she was gone, like that and Harry sobbed his heart breaking as the only parent figure he had ever had growing up was dead. Severus put an arm around him and held him, it was all he could do at this time.
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Harry sat looking out over the grounds unable to face the others in the office at this time. He had given them the memory of the "battle" in the graveyard. He still could not believe Mrs. Figg was dead, and what was more he could not even carry out the revenge he wanted against Voldemort as he had not survived losing his magic. What was worse than all this though was the fact that Bellatrix had escaped and none could find her. Harry knew she was just as dangerous as Voldemort and with her still out there the war had just escalated. He knew that soon the memories would end and that Dumbledore, the minister, madam Bones, the heads of houses for all four houses, and several others would finish watching the memories. From the muttering and talking the memories had finished and everyone was stepping back from the pensive. He still refused to turn and was surprised when two people put a hand on each shoulder. Severus was on one side which surprised him, he had bound him after all and Sirius on the other, he felt better with both of them here and he turned to face the office.
"So he came back but is dead due to his stupidity." Bone said, "I am so sorry for your loss."
"Thank you, he might be gone but we have a very real problem with Bellatrix Lestrange." Harry said, "you know she took part in some of the worst that Voldemort did and was as bad as he."
"Yes, what she did to the Longbottoms, she wanted their son to torture and kill, they would not give him up, shielded him from her and well you know what happened to them." Scrimgeour, a tall stocky man with grizzled mane of tawny hair, yellow eyes behind small square glasses that gave him a look of a lion, "we could have a real issue with her and students joining her, right Snape?"
"How dare….."
"It's alright professor McGonagall, I doubt any student will wish to join her, you see I know her as she and Voldemort had the same goals. If she is not stopped she exposes our world to the muggles, that happens we all die, so to save our world we have to ban together and fight her. But I will offer those that rally against her, and those in the government must do the same."
"What is that, want to buy off people?" Fudge said.
"No, I fight for freedom, for the queen and crown and country and freedom." Harry replied, "you know her majesty never did give up her rights to our world fully, the charters signed are very nearly close to be revoked."
"You dare threaten us boy?" Fudge snarled.
"No sir, I just want our would to survive and thrive, I don't want war or deaths or pain and suffering, I want peace and freedom and love and laughter, is that too much to ask for? I have seen too much death today all I ask is read the charters, before it is too late."
"Alright, that is enough tonight, Mr. Potter has had a horrible day, I am taking him to the hospital wing, Severus you will come as well." McGonagall said, "come along Mr. Potter."
Harry followed her out and realized he was so very tired and sore, his robes and uniform were splattered with blood and he looked a mess. He did not speak as he was lead to the hospital wing, he was going numb, and he just wanted to sleep and forget this day had ever happened. Mrs. Figg was dead and Voldemort was too, along with most of his followers but Bellatrix was still out there. Harry had no idea what he was going to do to stop her and he was too tired to say much of anything or do anything tonight. Once in the hospital wing he was ordered to take a bath then, once clean he dressed in his own night clothes, he saw Dobby waiting for him outside the door a concerned look in his eyes. Harry was led to bed by the elf who refused to let his godfather or Severus help for the moment and he even tucked him in and only then did he let Poppy come and check him over.
"Will master Harry be alright?" Dobby asked.
"He suffered a great loss." Sirius said getting on the elf's level, "when he lived with the Dursleys there was a kind old squib who all but raised him. She was murdered this evening by Voldemort's forces, he broke his word and it cost him his magic and life but."
"He was going to help me keep my cover, no doubt his mother's influence." Severus said, "but it does not matter now."
"I will stay with master Harry." Dobby said waving his hand over Harry getting Harry to fall asleep, "elf magic to help master Harry sleep, he will not dream tonight."
Both men nodded and Harry relaxed under the blankets, he shivered slightly and two sets of hands drew up a comforter over him. Severus and Sirius looked up at each other and for once they did not say a word, it was clear they both cared about Harry and for now they would stand to be around each other. Finding Bellatrix would take time and they would start to plan. Without Voldemort to hold her back they feared for the future and even Severus was concerned many of his Slytherins would join her. If that happened then their world was doomed, she would expose them all to the muggles and so lead to the destruction of their world. She was as dark as they came and had to be stopped.
Sirius knew fully who to blame for the muggles becoming so hostel to the magical world, dark witches and wizards. In ancient times they had set themselves up as false gods and goddesses, they had ruled with fear and intimidation. Their priests below them carried on their work setting up false miracles and the like. The turning point had been with one man named Moses who had humiliated the priests of Pharaoh and started to open the eyes of the oppressed. Dark witches and wizards were so feared that no witches or wizards were allowed in all of Israel as it was believed that the magical peoples would set themselves up as false gods. They were not wrong and it took more centuries before the Persian empire ironically put a stop to the dark witches and wizards from ruling as false gods. They were the first empire to ever allow free expression of religion and did not take kindly to others creating false gods.
Though most witches and wizards were good people and fought the dark witches and wizards the fear spread. It was not Christianity that caused the rift as the majority of the world started to move against the magical. By the time of the founders of Hogwarts the magical world was mostly in hiding with only a few showing themselves to the non-magical world. Even then the magical world interacted with the muggle world and knew quite a bit about the muggle world, then the persecutions ramped up stirred up by a dark lord here or a dark lady there. In the end they had no choice but to hide. If Bellatrix got her way than centuries of peace with the muggle world were going to end in a very violent way. This scared both wizards as they watched their charge sleep, who knew what the future held now, if any had in the first place.
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In another part of the castle Ginny Weasley was pacing, not really watching where she was going. She was not amused to run into Sybil Trelawney, the Divination professor. She was clad in a long sweeping robe with lots of shawls, bangles and wild hair with huge thick glasses. Ginny made to move from Trelawney but the batty witch grabbed her arm and her eyes glazed over as she went into a trance.
Gone now is the dark lord, thrice defeated by the chosen one. A new dark lady rises unable to endure the light she will hide where none but the seventh of seven in seven cycles shall face her. She will have the power the dark lady cannot abide and will defeat the dark lady or else the world is doomed…
"No, oh no, no, no!" Ginny said backing from Trelawney who was coming round.
"Something wrong my dear?" Trelawney asked.
"No professor, I ah have to run to the toilet." Ginny said.
She turned and ran, up the stairs and through corridors until she came to the portrait of the fat lady. She stumbled into the common room and Hermione took one look at her and drug her to a corner. There Ginny whispered the new prophecy and when done Hermione hugged her and promised to help her. All Ginny could think of was how this was going to affect Harry when he heard about this.
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You did not think I was going to keep this easy for Harry did you? Sure it was not canon but who is to say Mrs. Figg did not help raise Harry. Remember the few times we did see or hear about her were when Harry was with the Dursleys. They did not want him happy (at least his aunt did not) do you think he would tell them if she treated him good? No I hardly think so as he proved throughout the books he could hide things from his relations. Having Harry bind Severus was to save Severus's life, drastic but this is Harry and his saving people thing in full force. Oh and yea there is a new prophecy now too, wonder who it could mean….:)
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