Author's Note: So we're here and this is the end. For awhile I wasn't sure I'd finish this. I thought I'd leave it incomplete. But I decided against that. This chapter is the finale Chapter and Epilogue!
Dedication: The finale chapter is dedicated to DZ2, not only are you the dear friend who gave me the support to finish this piece but you also did me the kindness of looking over this chapter making sure that it's all that it can be. If you like this please check out DZ2's: Maruader By Name, Death is only the Beginning, Night Wolf: The Rising, and Hiding in plain Sight.
Chapter Warnings: Major Character Death, Violence, Blood, Gore. Dark Victory!
Chapter Summary: It's been a couple months, and it's time fora family reunion years in the Donn makes his move on the Wizarding World, Dumbledore takes his last stand for the 'Greater Good', Pandora gets some vengeance, Harry Potter is vanquished forever, Hogwarts becomes the center stage for the final battle, and later Tom and Hadrian finally wed as our adventure draws to a close.
Harry Potter: No More Than Fiction: Finale
Chapter Ten- Setting The Pot To Boil P2
She was a vision. Her curled black hair that towered on her head. The warm brown eyes that lit up as she looked upon her child. Her flesh and blood. A long black dress clung to her malnourished frame and black boots covered her feet. A shower had done a hell of a lot of good towards restore her to what she had once been. It hadn't healed her but she no longer smelled of a muggle sewer system. A visit with the dark's mind healers hadn't hurt either. Bellatrix gazed at her son sitting in his throne beside the Dark Lord's Vessel with pride. He had become something greater than she'd imagined. He had become plain great. Her true love Bartimous Crouch Jr stood next to their son his eyes just as bright as her own. He looked to the two thrones and when he received two nods, he practically launched from his spot and toward the dark witch.
"Oh Bella...My sweet Bella." Barty sighed holding her to him.
"Bartimous...I have missed you my love. Out here serving our Lord, looking after our son." She paused looking up at the strong and confident looking young man on the throne.
"Our very handsome and strong son. Our little Lord." She finished her eyes brimmed with tears.
"He has done well my Bella, united Slytherin, made a name all his own for himself. Publicly aligned himself with the Dark Lord. He has the entire wizarding world in an uproar and he did it himself. Everything, even the break out." Barty said beaming with pride as Hadrian stepped down from his throne and held his arm out for an unseen until this moment female companion.
Black straight locks adorned the head of the companion, her back rod straight and her stride poised as she accepted his arm and descended the stairs with him. Her warm and kind brown eyes the only thing that remained of her former self now that the blood adoption had been finalized with the spells and potions. She held nobility and grace. No trace of 'mudblood' remained. She was beyond that, more than that.
"Hello mother, it's good to see your recover has been so successful. May I please introduce your Blood Adopted Daughter Pandora?" He said introducing the striking witch at his side.
"Hadrian...Are you sure she was Muggleborn? She walks with grace and poise of a Pureblood Lady, like she was born into it and has done all the proper customs and extended the courtesies her entire life." Bella said in awe of her newest child.
"Thank you Miss Black, between Draco and Mrs Malfoy I have had every single thing about being Pureblood drilled into my head." She replied blushing when mentioning Draco much to Hadrian's amusement.
"Please Pandora I won't insult your birth mother by asking you to calling me Mum, but Mother or Bella is perfectly fine with me. You've done so much for Hadrian and stood by him when he needed you most even when he was difficult." She said alluding to Hadrian's reaction to Pandora's faked death.
"Mum it's been months, the finale task is around the corner could we not talk about that?" He asked turning Gryffindor scarlet.
"Not discuss the unbecoming way you acted like a spoiled child and threatened your betrothal to the Dark Lord? Why of course...NOT! Seriously Hadrian? I love my Nephew and such things aren't forbidden here, but Draco, really?" She questioned rounding on the slightly frightened Dark-Lord-in-training.
"Mother...Nothing really happened. We kissed and started to, but he backed off and didn't do anything further. Fled the dorm even." Hadrian replied.
"It's true Bellatrix, I excused Hadrian's lapse in judgment and your Nephew threw him under the bus the very next morning." Tom said throwing his two cents in from his larger throne.
"Yeah...Some best mate your boyfriend is Pandora." Hadrian said annoyed.
"At least I'm not kissing my cousin. I'm adopted." She said poking at the open wounded pride of her brother.
"It's almost like they've been siblings their whole lives." Barty said to Bella as she laid her head on his shoulder.
"Isn't it? I can't believe it's been this long. The third task is coming so fast. I hope Hadrian is ready." She replied and Barty nods in agreement as they watch him and Pandora bicker.
Harry Potter
Hadrian stood in Dumbledore's office the morning of the third task, he was trying his best and succeeding in hiding his disdain for the Headmaster as said old man examined the Goblet of Fire.
"What makes you think someone has tampered with the cup my boy?" He asked gravely.
"It's just a feeling really Headmaster. It just seemed...wrong. Like it was tainted or something." He replied wishing the old man would just touch the damn cup already.
"You were right to come to me Harry my boy, it has indeed been tampered with. It's been transformed into a magical transportation device called a port key. If you will, please come over her and stand beside me. I shall activate the device and...I dare say we'll find answers on the other end." Dumbledore decided.
"But Headmaster isn't that dangerous? What of the tournament? The final task is tonight." Hadrian pointed out.
"That is precisely why I am coming with you. Besides we'll be back in plenty of time for the final task this evening." He replied.
Hadrian did as Dumbledore asked and stood next to him so as Dumbledore touched the Goblet they were both whisked away from Hogwarts and to a graveyard. It was dimly lit in the early morning light but both men knew where they were though Hadrian tried his best to look surprised.
"Little Hangleton. I suspected we'd end up somewhere familiar to the Dark Lord, though that was the plan...wasn't Hadrian?" Dumbledore asked turning to face his pupil. Hadrian's eyes slightly widening in surprise.
"When did you find out? Did Miss Granger get a message to you before I did what had to be done? When did you come up with this...genius plot to kill me?" Dumbledore asked genuinely curious.
"I knew long before Hermione you foul piece of shit! You...Defeater of Grindlewald...Supreme Mugwamp...Leader of the Light. Your supposed to be better than the dark, better than us. But your worse. Throwing people away when they don't agree or follow the great plans of Albus-I-Have-Too-Many-Titles-Dumbledore. You murdered Lily Potter...You attacked a student in your own school. You left me to rot and be abused! You took away my family! Yet you remain clueless...This isn't about your death, at least not completely. This is something else. Something that has been coming for fourteen long years." Hadrian raged.
"You didn't bring me here to kill me...you could have done that in my office...took the school. You've been planning all year, your...your Lord Donn aren't you? You brought me here not for my death but for his resurrection..." Dumbledore said finally putting the pieces together.
"How right you are Headmaster, I also have a few...selected guests whom may like to say hello. Where are MY faithful? My...Imitatores." He stated and as he spoke figures emerged seemingly out of nothing.
They wore masks yes, but not like death eaters. They were blank masks in black and the cloaks also done in black billowed behind all of them.
"Friends...Allies...Welcome to the resurrection of the Dark Lord Voldemort!" He exclaimed as cheers filled the cemetery the regular plain Death Eaters having arrived and shooting of spells into the sky.
"We have waited all year long for this...Remove your masks my faithful and grace the...esteemed Headmaster with knowing the people whom shall witness his downfall." He said before turning and with a quick 'Immobilise' he rendered the great Albus Dumbledore immobile.
One by one people removed masks. Revealing suspected people such as Lucius Malfoy, Rodolphous and Rabastian LeStrange, Bellatrix Black, Barty Crouch Jr, Theodore Nott Sr, even Draco, and Pansy Parkinson. Tom's Vessel marched out and took his place next to Hadrian as two remained masked.
"How does it feel Albus...To be at your end by your supposed 'weapon'. To be frozen and unable to move while we resurrect my true body and then kill you and take over your school? While we turn your world right side up again?" Tom asked gleefully.
"Tom dear, he can't answer you. He's frozen. Everyone to your stations." He announces.
Hadrian helps Tom into the cauldron and began the grueling process of the ritual.
"Bone of the Father unknowingly given, you will renew your son." Hadrian said speaking in a monotone dropping the bone into the cauldron.
"Flesh of the betrothed lovingly granted, you will empower the one who holds your heart." He adds taking his wand and severing his non dominate hand letting no noise escape his throat even after he hears his mother gasp.
Turning to Dumbledore he pauses a moment at the man's wide eyes.
"Oh yes you old fool. I have been betrothed to Tom since birth and we defeated you...together." He hisses as he collects blood from the Headmaster.
"Blood of the enemy forcefully taken, you will resurrect your foe." He says before beckoning his father forward.
"Flesh of the servant willingly sacrificed, you will revive your master." He says slicing his father's non dominant hand off as well into the cauldron.
Silence settles over the graveyard as the cauldron begins to bubble and hiss before slowly, the sixteen year old looking Tom Marvelo Riddle emerges from it's depths. His followers cheering and clapping as their master returned to them renewed finally.
"Just as sexy as two years ago love." Hadrian says clothing his love in a jet black robe before kissing his lips. Then he turns to the gathered followers both his and Tom's.
"Today was a success. You return with me and my beloved to Hogwarts and we take the school! Slytherin fights with us and she shall fall quickly without Dumbledore. However.." He pauses removing the glamer that is Harry Potter to leave a neat trimmed and proper looking nobleman in his place. This was Hadrian Black or as he'd forever be known Lord Donn. He held no scar, nor the famous Avada eyes.
"Today in this Graveyard The-Boy-Who-Lived died. Harry Potter is gone, long reign Lord Donn, long reign Lord Voldemort!" He shouted earning cheers and spell fire from the crowd.
However it was then that Dumbledore finally broke free from the spells power and growled.
"You and your lover will...Never...Take...My...School. I will fight for it to the death and that's what you will get. FAWKS!" He yells clapping over his head summoning his phoenix familiar and vanishing in a blast of flames.
"Love...I know you aren't going to like this...But Dumbledore has style." Hadrian said to Tom slightly shocked.
"Your Impossible Hadrian." Tom sighed.
"Not Impossible, just a bit unlikely." Hadrian replied with a smirk and earning a gruff laugh from his father.
Harry Potter
As Dumbledore reappears in his office it's a shocked Minerva and Hagrid that greet him.
"Albus where in merlin's name have you been? Everyone has been looking everywhere for you and Potter..." Minerva stopped at a hand held up in her face.
"Harry isn't coming back Minnie... That cup took us to the Dark Lord Donn, he...he killed Harry and resurrected Tom. As we speak they are marching their forces for the school. Round up everyone under sixteen and send them to their dorms, wake the statues, gather the rest. We must prepare for war." Dumbledore stated. Not knowing how things could have gone so very wrong.
Minerva nodded tearfully and raced off to do what was requested just as pops began filling the air around the the school. It had begun.
Harry Potter
The forces of darkness indeed began popping in around the school's perimeter at an alarming rate. Death Eaters and Imitatores alike storming through the gates and up the winding hill to the castle. At the front were Tom and Hadrian with the still masked Lily Potter and Pandora as well as Barty and Bellatrix.
Breaching the entrances to the grounds they engaged many in battle, Bellatrix mowing down a couple of Seventh Year Gryffindors and Lily taking out a sixth year Ravenclaw. It wasn't what Hadrian wanted, not how he planned but it had none the less turned into a blood bath. Magical blood being spattered and smeared all over the stone and grass. Friends against friends even in some cases as Lily came face to face with Minerva.
"Minnie..Put down your wand things are not as you may believe." She tried.
"I don't know how you alive, I don't know why you fight for the dark, but I know Harry is dead and you Lily are betraying your son." She spat firing her curse.
It got worse as the battle progressed and people began to fall quickly, soon the Slytherins got loose from where they had been locked in the dungeons and the fight turned in the Dark's favor until finally Dumbledore appeared like a Messiah to save his flock of fools. He was immediately cornered by Hadrian, Tom and Pandora however.
"Alas...three on one hardly seems fair does it Tom, Hadrian? I don't believe we have been introduce the young lady and I however. Hadrian if you would be so kind as to indulge an old man." Dumbledore asked.
"This Headmaster is my dear sister Pandora and despite your best efforts...She stands with me on this day." Hadrian snarled.
"No...It cannot be. I was sure...I checked!" Dumbledore stuttered.
"You filthy, hypocritical, arrogant, lying, scheming, 'greater good' spouting, single minded bastard! You were wrong. You hexed me to the point of death and if I hadn't been prepared I would have died. However working with Tom we came up with a plan. I was Hermione Jean Granger and you Albus Dumbledore, you have failed our world." She screeched.
Using his surprise against him Hermione said the final two words that the Headmaster would ever hear.
"AVADA KEDAVERA!"
Harry Potter: No More Than Fiction: Epilogue
It has been a little over a month. Over a month since the Dark took Hogwarts. A month since Tom got his body back. A month since Hermione now known as Pandora killed Albus Dumbledore and ended the second Wizarding World War before it really even began. The dust had settled. The rest of the light minus Hagrid and Minerva whom had both lost their lives had surrendered. Things had settled down for the most part. Which was why Hadrian was currently struggling with his dress robes. He still hated the things with a passion and he hated them even more now on the day of his bonding ceremony.
That's right.
Today was the day he and Tom had finally gotten married as the muggles said. However right now he was trying to get out of said robes to join his naked Husband on the bed. Said husband chuckling at his plight because it was times like this that he seemed to forget he was a wizard. As Hadrian grew more and more frustrated Tom only grew more amused which certainly didn't help the situation at all.
"Tom instead of laughing at me you could come over and give me a hand." The boy whined.
Tom simply vanished his clothes instead and smiled before giving his love a kiss when he reached the bed.
"At risk of quoting that oaf Hagrid: Your a wizard Hadrian." Tom said with a bark of laughter.
Hadrian growled and jumped on his husband causing him to moan at the skin to skin contact.
"Prat...I should punish you for that." Hadrian grumbled.
"You really should and I'm sure you have loads of ideas on how. Ideas that could take awhile." Tom said with a smirk.
"Ideas that will take forever my love." Hadrian replied claiming his husbands lips and igniting love and passion that would never truly die.
FIN
Author's Note 2: So I cut out the sex scene that was to be in this chapter (Yes it was where you would think it to be) because I thought t best. I've stayed away from that the entire fic and I decided to keep it that way. Thank you all for being patient and reading till the end! Keeping with me through all the bad times and ups and downs. This story has taken almost two full years and now it's done. Until next fic,
Ski.