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"Speaking to each other"

'Thoughts'

"Mind speech"

~-The Rise of Darkness-~

Chapter 11

Narcissa Malfoy… no Black…not either…wait that's it… Narcissa No Name, being recently kicked out of the Most Ancient and Noble House of Black, is now on board an airplane with her son Draco, who is still a Malfoy, on going to Sweden. She decided to take him at Durmstrang Institute since she doesn't want Lord Potter to invoke the debt given by the very foolish duel Draco had done. She knows that if Draco pushed Lord or Lady Potter into the wrong side, she don't know what they will do to him. So for her son's own good she will try to enter him at Durmstrang. Fortunately she had gotten a very big amount of money from selling the manor including the house elves. She was able to buy a house in Sweden where she can stay and try to find a job. She sent a letter to Karkaroff, Durmstrang's headmaster. Draco was accepted, and relaying the news to her son he was pleased to himself. Now that Draco is at Durmstrang, she hopes that he will not do anything rash.

~-The Rise of Darkness-~

Harry and Hermione were already awake at nine-thirty in the morning and already at the Great Hall even though they slept at about one-thirty in the morning due to their Astronomy Class.

Snape wasn't in the Great Hall when Amelia Bones entered the Great Hall including with her 5 aurors. "Dumbledore I demand that Snape to be handed to us right now. He is a death eater and should have been with us since your trial. You yourself gave the evidence and we will throw him in Azkaban."

Dumbledore looked at Amelia and said, "Fine, get him now I queried the wards and he is going here now as we speak."

Amelia ordered the aurors to position themselves where they can ambush Snape and after a few minutes. The greasy-haired potions master appeared through the doorway. The aurors fired stunners at the surprised man and collapsed due to the stunners. Putting magic restraining manacles on him, Amelia thanked Dumbledore for his cooperation and he nodded at her. Nodding back, Amelia directed the aurors to go back to the ministry to ship Snape to Azkaban.

"What happened in your last potions lesson?"Amelia asked a first year student.

The first year replied, "Snape asked Potter and Granger some questions and answered it correctly and he became angry of being embarrassed. He also has done something to them when they warned him about something."

"Thank you." Amelia said and left the first year and began to leave the castle and go to the ministry with the thought. 'Who asks a Ravenclaw and don't expect them to know the answer. The chances to find one is slim but don't expect them to do spell work immediately'.

All the houses except Slytherin house rejoiced for Snape's removal. Dumbledore already fired Professor Binns due to old age and is finding a new history of magic teacher and is now going to find a new potions teacher which means that their time will become free periods for the students.

After 2 days, they already have their new potions and history teacher. Their new potions teacher is a man called Horace Slughorn. A fat old man with gooseberry colored eyes. Dumbledore introduced him to the students and introduced their new History of Magic teacher, Bathilda Bagshot. Grindelwald is very surprised to see her. She is very old with white hair and is able to stand up to wave to the students.

"And yes, she was the one who created the book you are using in the very same subject." Dumbledore remarked to the shocked and awed looks of the students.

They have their first lesson with Bathilda. She is old but she can teach well. She is able to attract the students' attention and keep them awake unlike Professor Binns.

"Welcome to the History of Magic Class." She said in a loud and clear voice. She walked randomly to the students while speaking."

"Now I don't know what that ghost teacher was able to teach you but he has also taught me. I wouldn't be surprised if he started about ranting about goblins, wars, and rebellions. I will start about one of the greatest war that has ever happened in history and maybe has been forgotten: The war between the Light and Darkness. Do any of you know about it? Anyone?" she asked. No one raised their hands and kept on listening and taking notes.

"I thought so. I think this is the first time it has been mentioned since many thousand years ago. It started and ended many millennia ago. I don't know the exact time and the records that I have found are very old and I was able to recover some."

"At the time when wizards clash against themselves for power and wealth, rose three wizards and two witches who allied themselves and they used the power of darkness to bring terror against the land. They forced people to give them their jewelry, wealth and knowledge. The wizarding communities submitted themselves to them out of fear of being attacked or slain by them. They grew powerful and created a powerful empire among the magical but they never extended to the non-magical world. "

"Their empire was at peace for ten years with no revolts or war. After those ten years, a woman named Joanne came from the mountains. She fought the five with a wand and sword. A wand made from a branch of Yggdrasil, the world tree and the core made from a thestral hair. The sword with the handle made of pure gold and the blade made of pure light."

"They fought the five versus Joanne. They clashed upon themselves. The five are using the power of the Dark and Joanne is using the power of the Light. The magic they are using are old and lost but in the end the Light triumphed and the world was free. The five were brought to justice and a prophecy was made by a bystander, who watched the battle from afar. He went to Joanne to ask questions but when he went to her he went to a trance. The prophecy is lost given to the three races: Humans, Veelas and the Goblins."

Harry and Hermione were wide-eyed because of this. Ragnok has given them piece of the ancient prophecy and there are two more to go. Professor Bathilda saw them.

"Do you have anything to say Mr. Potter? Ms. Granger?"

Harry stood up and answered, "We know a part of the prophecy."

Bathilda is shocked and motioned for them to continue.

"Ragnok, the manager of Gringotts told us about it." Hermione said.

"Can…Can I hear about it? This is the first time in my life that the prophecy is given to a human by goblins before and I have been searching and searching for the prophecy and I have never found it. The goblins and veelas, of course, have protections. I wasn't even able to go far enough to get a glimpse of it. I never found the part given to us, humans. So can we hear about it?"

Sighing, Harry replied,

"The time where manipulations grow great,

Many souls affected by it,

One will bring justice with his companion,

Remorse for the manipulator,

With love for each other they shall fight,

The Darkness within them,

Or fail and the Light will fight."

Professor Bathilda gasping, along with the students, said shaking, "You do know that the prophecy meant this time. The manipulator…Dumbledore, the one that brought justice…I have a lot to think about. Class dismissed!" The students scrambled out of their desks and left Professor Bathilda in her solitude.

Their first lesson with Slughorn is also the same standard with Bathilda. He teaches Potions with fun and amusement and does the potions the students are doing along side with them. He offered a price of Felix Felicis or luck potion to the one who have done their best job in creating a potion for curing boils in pairs. When he looked at Harry and Hermione's cauldron, he declared them the winner. He also started a club which makes him contact with very important people. He tried to invite Harry and Hermione once but they rejected it.

They also have been in their flying lesson with the Hufflepuff on a Thursday and it was taught by Madam Hooch. She had short, gray hair, and yellow eyes like a hawk. They got the basics on how to fly.

"Well, what are you all waiting for?" she barked. "Everyone stand by a broomstick to your right. Come on, hurry up."

Harry glanced down at his broom. It was old and some of the twigs stuck out at odd angles.

"Stick out your right hand over your broom," called Madam Hooch at the front, "and say 'Up!"'

"UP" everyone shouted.

Harry, Hermione and some of the other students' broomsticks jumped to their hands while the others' have rolled on the ground or hadn't moved at all.

Madam Hooch then showed them how to mount their brooms without sliding off the end, and walked up and down the rows correcting their grips.

"Now, when I blow my whistle, you kick off from the ground, hard," said Madam Hooch. "Keep your brooms steady, rise a few feet, and then come straight back down by leaning forward slightly. On my whistle – three - two – one—go!"

The students were able to hover a few feet and go back to the ground with minor difficulties.

"Good." commented Madam Hooch. "Now try to fly way up higher and glide back down after that if none of you fell, I will let you fly on your own devices but no tricks or stunts for all of you. I will be guarding you of course."

And so they did. None of the fell and were able to fly and glide. Fortunately, the students were obedient and no accidents happened throughout the session

Hagrid also invited them once to his hut in where they learned that someone tried to steal an item in Gringotts.

He invited them on a Friday and he talked about Harry's parents. He offered them rock cakes, a cake that is hard as a rock, which made their teeth ache after taking a bite. They noticed the Daily Prophet newspaper, which is now almost a month year old lying on the table. It read:

GRINGOTTS BREAK-IN LATEST

Investigations continue into the break-in at Gringotts on 31 July, widely believed to be the work of Dark wizards or witches unknown.

Gringotts goblins today insisted that nothing had been taken. The vault that was searched had in fact been emptied the same day.

"But we're not telling you what was in there, so keep your noses out if you know what's good for you," said a Gringotts spokesgoblin this afternoon.

It surprised Harry and Hermione. They bud Hagrid goodbye and Hagrid asked them to go back to his hut anytime they want and they left.

They celebrated Hermione's birthday in a Thursday and Sirius gave her a gift-a book about magic.

The days passed by and Harry and Hermione received letters from Sirius often, one of them about a friend of his and Harry's father, and they read books and practice their abilities in their free time. They answer their assignments immediately when they received it. Ronald Weasley keeps on harassing them but they shrugged it off. In the start of October, they received a letter from Sirius regarding two horcruxes-a diary, which he found at Black Manor (formerly Malfoy Manor) and Slytherin's locket, which is found at Grimmauld Place, were destroyed with the help of the goblins.

Time passed by and it is now Halloween. Harry spent the day wandering the castle with Hermione. Everyone is celebrating the day Voldemort was stopped even when they now know that he is still alive but just a spirit. It is considered a holiday for magical Britain. For Harry and Hermione, it is the day when Harry's parents died and nearly is the day where Hermione's did. They spent the day together and thinking what would have happened if their parents were alive.

On a room they found a mirror. It was a magnificent mirror, as high as the ceiling, with an ornate gold frame, standing on two clawed feet. There was an inscription carved around the top: Erised stra ehru oyt ube cafru oyt on wohsi. They moved nearer to the mirror, wanting to look at them but see no reflection again. They stepped in front of it.

They gasped on what they saw. They saw themselves with their parents standing beside them. A woman standing right behind Harry's reflection was smiling at him and waving. He reached out a hand and felt the air behind him. If she was really there, he'd touch her, their reflections were so close together, but he felt only air - she and the others existed only in the mirror. She was a very pretty woman. She had dark red hair and her eyes – her eyes are just like mine, Harry thought, edging a little closer to the glass. Bright green - exactly the same shape, but then he noticed that she was crying; smiling, but crying at the same time. The tall, thin, black-haired man standing next to her put his arm around her. He wore glasses, and his hair was very untidy. It stuck up at the back, just as Harry's did.

Behind Hermione, a brown and bushy haired woman like Hermione but with black eyes is also waving and smiling at her. A dark brown haired man with brown eyes is standing next to her.

They stared at their parents, mot believing on what they saw. Hermione paid attention to the carvings on the mirror.

"Harry?" she asked through their bond.

"Yes, Hermione?" he replied.

"Look at the carvings above." Harry looked at the carvings. "What is it?"

"It means I show not your face but your heart's desire."

Dumbledore suddenly came to the room.

"I heard the wards triggering. I suppose that it was you two. Correct?"

Harry and Hermione nodded.

Dumbledore turned to the mirror. "The Mirror of Erised, it shows you what you truly desire but one must not stay with this object and stare at it for a long time. The same person might even get mad because of it. I advise you not to go back to this room. I decide to finally seal this room so that no one can find this and might get mad. Off you go. Go to the Great Hall to catch up to eat dinner. I know the house elves might be able to give you some in the kitchens if you decide not to go to the Great Hall."

Harry and Hermione left the room and ate dinner at the kitchens and went back to their quarters to sleep.

~-The Rise of Darkness-~

Author's Notes: I am having difficulties in thinking on what to do in their second and third years. I really took out most of the cause of the problems in the main story. Anyway I am trying to find way yet and how not to make it dull unless you want me to skip it. Also I hope this would explain that Harry and Hermione did not… I repeat… did not still use their debts against the Malfoy family.