Sorry this took so long, I've given up trying to make chapters for this have the 8,000 word minimum. I did manage to make it 5,000 words though. Actually that's not something to be proud of.
Anyway for the first time I am posting an update from the Orkney Isles, special moment for me.
Hope you enjoy this regardless of the short length.
Chapter 12: Where things end at the beginning
Halloween was just a few days away and the Golden Trio were aiming to have the Horcrux Hunt mark 2 ended before that fateful day arrived. With the timeline messed up there was absolutely no guarantee Voldemort and Quirrell would try and steal the Philosophers Stone like the last time, but the three of them didn't want to risk waiting any longer. Last time Quirrell's attempt was foiled by Snape and Fluffy, but there was no guarantee that would happen again.
"Whatever happened to Fluffy?" said Ron "We never heard anything about him after First Year."
Harry looked at Hermione who shrugged "No Idea, maybe Dumbledore made Hagrid give him up."
"I don't think that is really important right now." Said Hermione "We are about to break into one of the most heavily warded homes in Britain. Need I remind you that no one has ever snuck into Malfoy Manor before."
"Dobby did." Said Harry "He rescued us."
Hermione's eyes widened "He did, the wards can't stop House-Elves…"
"Wait Hermione." Said Harry "Even if we had access to a House-Elf, which we don't, Dobby will probably notice and confront us, and right now he is bound to the Malfoy Family and is likely obliged by his servant magic to protect the home."
"We could use Kreacher." Said Ron
"Not a good idea." Said Harry "Despite what happened with Regulus and the Locket, Kreacher is closer to Narcissa than he is Sirius, he will look for opportunities to circumvent our authority and alert her."
"Well we need to come up with something." Said Hermione in frustration. "The boundaries and the gardens are completely entrenched in all sorts of detection spells and counter-measures. If we could arrive inside the manor and bypass the outside, things would be so much easier."
"What about the Floo?" said Ron "We could try entering from the fireplace."
"No the Malfoys would be smart enough to only allow certain fireplaces to connect to theirs." said Harry "Grimmauld Place might have been an option at one point, but they would have closed it off when Sirius escaped from Azkaban, if not when Wallburga died."
"Floo might still be on the table." Said Hermione "If we can get just one of us into the mansion then that one of us could open the Floo to either here or Grimmauld Place and let the rest of us through."
Harry nodded "That's not a bad thought. Now that I think about it, my cloak should shield me from most of the detection spells. I can perform charms and counter charms on myself that should protect me from the rest."
Hermione looked bothered, "I don't know Harry. That would put you at risk, not to mention we want to do this undetected and we still need a way to get you past the perimeter."
"I've thought about that a little bit." Said Ron "We could dig our way under the hedge near the pond garden, where the detection charms aren't at their strongest. We would have to delicately incant our countercharms but it should still be possible."
Hermione nodded "Good yes…" she then turned to Harry "I don't want you just going in on your own. I want someone on the outside supporting you."
"Sirius." Said Harry "I don't want to risk having Remus too near the Malfoys, we do not need the Ministry arresting him for being too close too 'upstanding purebloods'.
"I suppose you're right." Said Hermione "Today is the 28th, the Hogwarts Board of Governors will be gathering for their seasonal committee meeting tomorrow. Both Narcissa and Lucius will be attending so I think we should go then. Between then and now though, Harry, I want you to practice non-verbally incanting counter charms. We also need to let Sirius know what we expect from him.
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"Are they doing alright?" Harry asked Ginny who was watching Ron and Hermione with their baby in the next room.
Ginny looked up and nodded. "Are we like that? In the future I mean?" she indicated Ron and Hermione. The two of them were cradling their baby and talking asking if the other person was their 'mummy' or 'daddy'.
"Yes, I think most parents are like that." Said Harry.
"So we do that… constantly?" Said Ginny.
"Try to engage our child in conversation? Yes we do. Of course James is now two-years-old and nearly three, so he has his own words to say. But when Lily/Albus comes along we'll start all over again. Like that."
Ginny shook her head. "I don't understand."
"You're ten-years-old. You're not expected to understand. Even Bill and Charlie, who've memorably grown up with babies in the family wouldn't have understood at your age. We're not convinced Charlie understands now to be honest."
"It's just. One day I'm going to have a baby, your baby and I know… somewhat… how to have one but…"
"Stop right there Gin." Said Harry, not wanting to have that conversation with this Ginny. "We'll deal with it when it happens, or rather you will I already have. Maybe it would be a good idea for you and your Mum to sit down and have a talk about this when the Horcrux Hunt is over."
"D… did I do that last time?" said Ginny.
"No. At least I don't think so. Believe it or not, this is something you come to terms with in your own time as you grow up. You probably didn't talk to Molly, your Mum, beforehand but you didn't meet me like this or have the foreknowledge that you may one day have children, so you probably didn't have to."
"May?" said Ginny "What do you mean may?"
"The Future's not predetermined. We're changing it now. You might decide you don't love me in this timeline, he might decide it, though I doubt it personally. Even if we do fall in love, we might not have the same children. I actually wonder about Remus. Will he fall in love with Tonks? If he does will he fall in love with her sooner? Will he end up with her because Sirius pushes them together? Will she recoil out of fear for what he knows and what the rest of us know? Will Teddy be born? Will he have any younger siblings, or older ones for that matter?"
"Oh my god Harry." Cried Ginny "What if by changing time we've…"
"Ginny. These are mere speculations. My advice is to ignore everything you know about my timeline. Never forget it, but ignore it. I believe, with all my heart that he will fall in love with you Ginny, provided you are you. I believe that he will do everything he can to find that love between the two of you, because let's face it. He needs it."
"He? Are you talking about yourself?" said Ginny.
"The me that will be left behind when all this is over." Said Harry. "Just remember that you are ten and don't try to grow up too quickly. Have a harmless crush on a boy you befriend, and be honest with yourself. I don't want you to make commitments with someone you're not going to love. Fall in love with me for the right reasons. You did fine in the other timeline despite the Diary, Cho and the war driving us apart. You'll do fine here."
Ginny's eyes teared up and Harry took her in a nice long hug.
"Do you think they know we can hear everything they say?" Ron asked Hermione.
"I think they do now. But leave them be." Said Hermione. "Is that your Daddy Rose? Is that your Daddy?"
"Uh!" said Rose reaching for Ron.
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Harry and Sirius apparated inside a forest that no Muggle had set foot in for centuries.
"For the record, I hate this place." Said Sirius
"For the record, not as much as I do." Said Harry.
The forest in Wiltshire completely surrounded the land owned by the Malfoys, the entire area was coated with a Muggle-repelling charm that got stronger and stronger as one got closer to the centre where the manor was situated.
Harry had first come here at the end of March in 1998, when he, Ron and Hermione were captured by the snatchers. He had been round numerous times since then, sometimes to guard the house-arrested Malfoys, sometimes as part of his routine investigations that were a condition of their house-arrest. He still wasn't used to it.
"The point we want is just over here." Harry indicated "But first we need to wait for the signal."
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Meanwhile back at Potter Manor in Cumberland.
"I had no idea they all met at Hogwarts so often." Said Ron "I can't believe how many times the older smug git was…"
"He was only there our first two years remember." Said Hermione "He was sacked after the Chamber incident. After this he will probably get sacked again."
"Let's hope so." Said Ron.
The two of them were looking at the Marauders Map which showed every name entering Dumbledore's office.
"There are a lot of people there." Said Ron "Why are Fudge, Umbridge and Madam Bones there? They have nothing to do with Hogwarts."
"Fudge and Bones are probably concerned about us… Well Bones will be concerned about us and Fudge wants Harry back in the Wizarding World for the sake of his own credibility. Remember the three of us disappeared on Dumbledore's watch. The fact that we had all that spell-fire in the school corridors and the fact that Harry beat Dumbledore in a duel…"
"I suppose you're right." Said Ron "Who are all these people though, they can't all be governors."
"They're not. Marchbanks and Ogden are with the Wiazarding Education Committee."
"Oh yeah they oversaw our O.W.L's." said Ron
"Those two sitting close together are probably Head Boy and Girl." Said Hermione
"They attend the meetings?"
"Just four times a year, I remember doing it the year I went back." Said Hermione "I think he's a journalist for the Wizarding Wireless network and him for the Daily Prophet. A few will be husbands or wives of governors.
"Why do they need to attend?"
"For the most part they don't but when their own children start attending many want to. Narcissa will be no different. She is a horrible woman but she does love her son."
"Who is also horrible." Ron couldn't help but say "Speaking of which."
Ron and Hermione saw Narcissa and Lucius Malfoy's names appear by Dumbledore's fireplace.
"Aright send the signal." Said Hermione
"Expecto Patronum!" incanted Ron
The silver coloured Jack-Russell Terrier burst from Ron's wand and shot towards Harry at the Speed of Magic.
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"Alright their gone." Said Harry
"I can't believe you're going to rob my cousin!" said Sirius excitedly. "Serves the insufferable whining little girl right."
Harry rolled his eyes and pointed to the ground "Defodio!" a large hole appeared. Harry then began summoning dirt from under the perimeter. Meanwhile Sirius used a wand borrowed from Ginny to reinforce the ceiling of the tunnel Harry was creating.
"No matter what happens, only enter if I'm incapacitated." Said Harry warningly.
"Harry you just defeated Dumbledore in a duel, I think you can handle whatever the Malfoy's have to offer." Said Sirius.
Harry nodded and put his invisibility cloak on. He began incanting counter-curses and counter-charms delicately and cautiously from the hole in the ground. Then he gradually moved forwards continuing to incant as he went. Once he reached the garden area of the Malfoy property, he incanted a series magic spells to try and persuade any wards around him that he was not there, then climbed out of the hole in the ground.
Walking through the garden was tense but without incident. There were a number of traps, but Harry's spells managed to counter or neutralise them all. The first actual problem came when he got to the building. The doors were all locked with charms that were far too powerful for a basic unlocking charm. While Harry could cast more complex ones, the chances were that in doing so he would raise some kind of alarm. But the windows were another question.
Hermione had had a theory which Harry was able to confirm with a subtle series of diagnostic charms. Like most manors, the Malfoy's had a basement storeroom for keeping their food. This basement had a small window, Hermione had accurately theorised that the window would have been considered too small for intruders to pass through and thus it was without the additional protections the doors and the rest of the windows had. Harry merely had to use a few manipulation charms to ease the lesser wards off it then perform a basic unlocking charm to open it without being detected.
Harry, taking advantage of his small and skinny figure, dropped through the basement and landed on a large sack full of uncooked pasta.
Now inside the Malfoy's basement he raised his wand and incanted "Homenum Revelio!" it told him that no one else was in the property. But Harry knew that someone else was in fact inside the manor.
House-elves were incompatible with most human magic, despite exhaustive attempts no one in 2006 had been able to fix that problem. Harry did however have the advantage that he knew that the Malfoy's only had one House-Elf. He cautiously exited the basement and kept his eyes and ears open for the Dobby. He emerged in the Malfoy's kitchen, looked around and proceeded through the manor as silently as possible.
Soon his ears picked up the sound of little feet moving about on a wooden surface. The noises in question seemed to be coming from the library. Sure enough, Harry peaked through the open door and spied Dobby cleaning the bookshelves with a feather duster. With a great amount of regret Harry fired a silent body-bind at him and the little Elf fell on his back.
Guiltily, Harry shut the door to the library so that Dobby wouldn't be able to tell it was him.
Task done he found the Floo, checked it over for traps and finding none sent a Patronus message to Ron and Hermione. Less than a minute later the two of them popped out of the fireplace.
"Dobby?" said Hermione.
"Body-bound in the Library." Said Harry. "Come on we need to find the hidden stash."
The three of them snuck into the drawing room and identified the carpet where the secret passage was hidden. The series of protective enchantments was intense and it took Ron and Harry nearly an hour to delicately dismantle them.
"What exactly are we going to find in here?" said Ron.
"Don't know." Said Harry "I know the Aurors after the war found a lot of stuff, but the Malfoys had to sell a lot of their artefacts during the war so they had enough money to stay in Voldemorts favour. Personally I'm not sure why Lucius saw a need to hoard vast numbers of the stuff in the first place."
"Yeah. Ok that it done. We can unlock it now."
"Right." Said Harry "Alohomora!" with a series of clicks the floor in front of them dropped away revealing a staircase.
"Bloody hell." Said Ron when they to the bottom. "This thing must be miles long… it's like that treasure trove in that Mummy film you took me to."
"I know." Said Harry as he began searching through the basement area. "There was never this much stuff when we raided the place in the present."
"But next year Mr Weasley is going to put forward his Muggle Protection act." Said Hermione. "Remember Malfoy sold a lot of things off then, not to mention what the family sold during the war."
"Why does he want all this stuff though?" said Ron "I mean he can't use it, there's enough here to get him life in Azkaban."
"The higher ups actually got a psychological profile made of Lucius Malfoy. He has this power obsession, half his thrill was having this stuff in the full knowledge that it was illegal. He also longs for the days when Purebloods ruled the land and Dark Magic didn't have the same restraints that it has nowadays." Said Harry.
"We have to stop him." Said Hermione.
"We need to get the Diary." Said Harry. "Our role in this is to kill Voldemort and return to our timeline. We have to have faith in those we leave behind. Sirius will do what he can, I'm sure of it."
"That's true." Said Hermione "Once he's free, he'll have a lot more influence as head of the House of Black."
"And regent of the House of Potter." Said Harry.
"Sirius is your regent?" Asked Ron.
"No but he should be." Said Harry. "The rest of my family is dead and I'm not old enough to assume the titles and responsibilities, right now, I'm technically emancipated. Before I leave though I'll make sure all my guardian rights will go to Sirius. He's got an 11-year-old boy to raise."
"Don't you think that it's going to be a bit much for Sirius?" said Hermione.
"He'll have you two to help keep me happy during my mood swings, not to mention Ginny." Said Harry "Remus will also help him in any way he can. I imagine that Dumbledore and the rest of your family will too once they have the chance."
"That's a given." Said Ron. "I suppose with Voldemort out of the way it will be easier in some ways than what we had to go through."
"But still harder." Said Harry. "You know I'm seriously thinking of just setting this place alight with fiendfyre."
"Well you can't." said Hermione, "Especially not with Dobby in the house upstairs, and anyway we need to verify its destruction."
"Speaking of which, what do we do about Dobby? We can't just leave him to live in this environment." said Ron.
"I'll ask Sirius to take care of it, he'll think of something." Said Harry.
It took them nearly another hour to search through all the junk, they had to be careful as there was more than one dangerous item that could potentially kill them.
"Wait, this is it, isn't it?" said Ron.
Harry and Hermione approached it. "Yeah it is." Said Harry. This was it, the last Horcrux, that they needed to once and for all end Voldemort in this time and spare the lives of all those lost during the Second War. Harry picked it up and put it in his pocket. It was time to leave.
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However things got out of hand rather quickly. The second Harry's foot touched the first step of the staircase back to the Drawing Room, alarms started blaring throughout the manor. The trio on instinct hurried up the stairs only to stop as halfway up a staircase, the ceiling opened and a gooey orange liquid to star pouring down towards them.
Hermione grabbed Harry and Ron by the arms drug them back down to the storeroom at high speed. Once they started moving at a hurried speed she aimed over her arm.
"Aquamenti Glacium!" she incanted.
Freezing cold water shot from her wand and froze on contact with the lava-like liquid. It bought them enough time to get to the bottom of the staircase.
"Protego Totalum!" Hermione incanted. A heavy shield erected itself over the passageway, halting the liquid.
"What on Earth." Said Harry. "What are the Malfoy's doing with lava stored in there…"
"That's not lava Harry, that's Water of Muspelheim. It's a really horrible and really dangerous liquid made of the Heart of a Dragon, two hundred plus Fire Seeds, Mana and lots and lots of acid. My shield won't hold it for long."
"Let me help then." Said Ron. He pointed his wand and channelled his magic into the shield.
"That will buy us an extra half a minute at best." Said Hermione.
"Not now." Said Harry. "We've got the last Horcrux we can't let it end like this."
"Harry there is no way out of here. The Malfoys must have designed this to keep all intruders out of here." Said Hermione in panic.
"From the moment I met Draco I never agreed with the Malfoys, I don't intend to start now." Said Harry. "Correct me if I'm wrong but the Malfoy's ballroom should be located right there?" he pointed at the ceiling.
"Yes, but Harry…" said Hermione.
"Give me as long as you can." Said Harry. He took out his wand and began to draw a rune made out of blue light emanating from his wand.
"Harry, what are you doing?" shouted Hermione in panicked confusion.
"Augendae hoc carmine cantatum devolvat mea navitas!" Harry's rune began to flare. He angled it up so it was directly between him and the ceiling underneath the Ballroom. "Confringo Maxima!"
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Harry grotesquely overestimated the structural integrity of the Malfoy's Property. He drained most of his energy in order to cast that spell. In doing so; the enhanced Explosion Curse tore through the ceiling, created a gaping hole in the Malfoys' Ballroom floor, blasted the roof off the entire eastern side of the manor, then impacted the Ward Shields, which were much weaker on the inside, and shattered them and protective wards all around Malfoy Manor.
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"Harry you crazy bugger." Said Ron. As his friend collapsed to his knees.
"Let's just gain some elevation." Said Hermione. She and Ron ran over to their friend and lifted his arms over their shoulders.
"On three." Said Ron "One, two. THREE!"
"THREE!" shouted Hermione in time with her husband.
"ASCENDIO!" they incanted together.
Ron, Hermione and Harry shot out of the hole Harry created in the ceiling and landed on the rubble strewn floor of the Ballroom.
Hermione felt her shield charm begin to fail and looked back down into the storeroom and her eyes widened at the site of a red skull floating in a jar of green gas.
"We've got to get out of here now." She shouted.
"Wha?" said Harry groggily.
"This place is going to blow up." She shouted.
Harry's eyes widened open and with a rush of adrenalin forgot his weariness and ran with his friends towards the way out "Accio Dobby!"
Even as the three of them were running for the door, Harry caught the body-bound House-Elf and the three of them ran out of the front door and into the garden. Thankfully, since Harry had stuck the Ward Shield, the protective enchantments in the garden had collapsed and they didn't have to worry about traps.
However the second they stepped out of the Manor, a huge shockwave knocked them off their feat. Turning back, Harry saw the foundations of the house start to collapse in on themselves, smoke was beginning to rise from the centre where the cellar was. He got to his feet and carried Dobby all the way to the far end of the garden then beyond the boundaries. Their followed two more explosions, the house collapsed to ruins and what little that remained was completely ablaze.
"We need to get out of here now." Said Hermione. "Those alarms would have alerted the Malfoys, they'll be here any second."
"Right." Said Harry. "I'm sorry Dobby."
He placed the elf on the ground in front of the entrance to the grounds and then he and then turned to his friends.
"Let's go."
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Harry and his friends apparated away mere seconds before Narcissa and Lucius Malfoy disapparated before their now burnt to the ground home. Not two seconds after that, the Body-Bind that held Dobby broke and, having no house to care for, went straight to his Master and Mistress's sides.
Lucius had pulled his cloak off ready to do battle with whoever dared intruding on his home. But the site of the burning ruins put him into a daze which caused him to instinctively pass on the garment he was holding to the nearest helping hand, which happened to belong to Dobby. The mind of the Head of the House of Malfoy not fully aware of the elf's presence or his panicking excuses. He also failed to comprehend the fact that he had just given him clothes.
"Dobby is Free!" said the House-Elf happily, then he teleported away to start his new life.
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Harry and his friends passed through the wards in Cumberland directly in front of the house.
As soon as they got inside, Hermione through her arms around Harry and kissed him on the forehead.
When the others heard the door open they all rushed forward.
"Did you manage it, Harry you look exhausted?" said Lupin.
"He was completely brilliant." Said Hermione "We were trapped by a torrent of Water of Muspelheim, Ron and I were barely managing to hold it back and Harry created a way out for us by blowing a hole in the ceiling."
Remus's eyes widened "Water of Muspelheim? What were they thinking keeping that there?"
"It was evidently a trap designed to keep us from taking the diary." Said Harry "If we make it back to the future, we'll have to make sure those Malfoys don't have any lying about. By the way what is that stuff? Waters of Muspelheim?"
Hermione had everyone sit down in the living room. Harry found himself comfortable sandwiched between Ginny and Sirius. Both were extremely worried for him as he had come off worse for wear during this much shortened Horcrux hunt. When Harry and the others explained what happened, Hermione explained the substance they found.
"Right Waters of Muspelheim." Said Hermione "In Norse Mythology Muspelheim is the Realm of Fire. I don't know much more than that, but I think that's sufficient enough to name this potion. Waters of Muspelheim requires one to take the heart out of a full-grown dragon and, within an hour of its removal, boil it in a cauldron made out of either Gold, Platinum or Titanium, because no other container is strong enough to withstand the corrosive heat. Anyway, you must boil the heart within an hour of its removal along with at least two hundred fire seeds and twenty fragments of Mana in this cauldron filled with an acid with a Ph lower than 3 for an hour to an hour-and-a-half until it turns into a gooey orange substance that is a lot like lava."
"How much like lava is this stuff?" said Harry.
"It's basically the same except the Mana means it has magical properties. Meaning a skilled Potioner can preserve it and it doesn't turn to rock after a time. But it also means that it can be held back by a shield charm temporarily. But it is heavily destructive and very dangerous. It's one of the few substances that can destroy a Horcrux."
"It is?" said Ron. "We should have just left the Diary there then."
"No we shouldn't have." Said Hermione.
"Why not?" asked Sirius.
"Two reasons. It can destroy it, but it's not safe for us to just hang around and verify the Water actually destroying the Diary."
"And Secondly?" asked Ginny.
"Secondly, it may not have happened yet and never will. But you Ginny Weasley were violated by this thing. You have more right than anyone in the fight against Voldemort to destroy it."
Everyone was silenced by Hermione's declaration.
"That's not very logical." Said Ron after a few seconds of silence.
"I for a long time relied only on logic." Said Hermione "It took you and some other factors but mainly you to make me realise that." She reached out and took her husband's hand.
"Awe isn't that cute Fred." Said George.
"Yes, ickle Ronnikins loves his wife." Mocked Fred.
"Yeah that's right." Said Ron with a lack of interest in his brother's existence.
He and Hermione kissed for a few seconds longer before pulling apart.
"By the way?" said Harry "How did you know that place was going to blow up?"
"There was a container with Muggle-killer gas." Said Hermione. "It's essentially a gas that is preserved using the skull of a Muggle and a sealed container. It does what the name suggests, it kills non-magical humans. But if it comes into contact with any kind of fire or very hot substance. Boom."
"That explains a lot." Said Ron. "Shall we destroy the Diary now?"
"Yeah. By the way Ginny, Hermione's right." Said Harry. He pulled the Diary from his robes and placed it on the floor. "If anyone has the right to destroy this thing, it's you."
Ginny looked a little nervous but took strength from her husband/future husband/fiancé/boyfriend/future boyfriend/some guy, and went over to retrieve the sword from the cabinet.
Everyone looked at the Ginny as she walked over to where it was placed.
Ginny had no personal memories of the Chamber of Secrets, she wouldn't it hadn't happened in her timeline. But she saw Harry's memories of his Second and her First Year at Hogwarts. She saw what that thing did to her, saw what it turned her into. If it didn't harm her, it would harm someone else, even without a Basilisk it was dangerous. With as much malice as the ten-year-old could muster, she stabbed the Diary straight through the middle.
By this stage they'd become used to it, but when the gaseous form of Tom Riddle's head emerged from the book and screamed for all to hear, Ginny jumped back in shock, she had never been up this close. After a brief amount of time, the gas dissipated and it was over.
What was the first Horcrux ever made and the first Horcrux destroyed during the last timeline became the last Horcrux to be destroyed during the new timeline. The second hunt for the Horcruxes was now over and only one task remained. The Death of the Dark Lord Voldemort.
Suddenly the Mirror began to hover in the air.
"What is it doing?" said Ron in surprise.
"We haven't finished yet, why is it reacting now?" said Harry.
The mirror began rotating and engulfed itself in a bright blue light. The light expanded and deposited a black box with white inscriptions on it upon the coffee table.
The Mirror then ceased its motions and settled back down on the cabinet.
"What is…" began Sirius.
"But that's impossible." Said Hermione.
"What is it?" said Sirius.
"It's… It's a rune trap." Said Hermione.
Well that's the Penultimate Chapter. That means the next one will be the last. This really strange for me, with the exception of one-shots I've never marked a story down as complete before. This was one of the first stories I ever published, well actually it was fourth but what the heck, I originally published this at the same time as my first one-shot, To Harry Potter, and My Brother, all three were early projects designed to move away from Tales of Symphonia. It saddens me slightly to know that this story is almost complete.
I shall leave you with this comment regarding the next and final chapter:
When you're awesome, it's best to have an audience.
