Chapter 14—A bar of silver, a dead rat, and a broom stick
Tonks had just recieved an ingagement ring, that got Tonks jumping up and down which matched Hermione and her solution to all of our problems. Yes I believe all that just like you have a bridge in down town London for sale.
The solution, well part of it:
"Originally Voldemort's body was not found, we think someone took it, I.E. Peter. Pettigrew testified that he had Riddles wand at the graveyard so he had to be at Godric Hollows when your parents were killed. So we believe he took the wand and Riddles body." Moine informed me.
"Now he probably put all that in stasis and hid it where he was hiding as a rat, at the Weasleys." Daf added.
"That ought to make Molly and the light side happy, they have been housing Volde the whole time. I wonder who she will send the Howler too." I joked.
Moine continued, "So when he met up with the wrath of Riddle in Albania all they had to do was get back here to England and set up the ritual. Knowing how Voldemort thinks that would be too simple. So he set up his scheme at the Triwizard tournament, possibly to get hold of you."
"Now we know Wormtail swore under Veritaserum that was how he got his silver hand. Moine found the books in Black's library and she has the ritual."
Moine finished the tale. "When they did the ritual they used blood of an enemy forcefully taken, bone of his father and the hand from Wormtail. Voldemort's body was there, probably in a Cauldron and all this became the force that made Volde's body reanimate. The old real body was changed from the ritual but it is also part of Wormtail and whoever lost their blood, the baby's body that he stole is in the mix but I don't think it's important for our cause."
"So were does this leave us?" I asked.
"Well we need a necromancer that's not a charlatan and a place to perform the ritual. There is a ton of other stuff we need but first a top class necromancer and some answers." Moine did not look overly confident.
"So what's the problem love, you seem to have a handle on all of this." I prodded.
"Moine is worried that the ritual is illegal in England and Voldemort still has all of his Horicux to fall back on."
I thanked both girls and spread some kisses around and that changed the subject, for now.
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We did but it's not like you can advertize for a necromancer and as we thought many turned up who were just con artists. They were not ready for Daphne and Hermione quiz, well more like in inquisition until one man laughs in their face.
"Just call me Sandy, so what are you two Ladies trying to recall. Do you want an 'Inferi', a ghost, spirit or a complete living breathing person or is it an animal?"
"We want to know if when you bring back the body of a dead person do you bring back the complete body. Say a person lost his arm twenty years ago; when you bring the person back will he have his arm?" Daf asked.
"Yes his arm would come with him but it may not be attached and all of this is if he has not died over twelve months ago. After twelve month I can only bring back a ghost or spirit."
"When can we start…" started Moine.
"Whoa, I need a full and complete explanation then we can get the conjurations, sacrifices, wands, incantations, with the various shapes, symbols needed and then a Christian minister." The looks on the Girls faces were not much better than mine.
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While the island was decided upon for the where the rest was a lot of planning and hunting. We hunted down his wand at the ministry and got the knife that Sirius had used to kill him. Sandy was intrigued when I asked if I used another's blood if Wormtail's blood had mixed in at some time.
The Christian ministers all said no until we found, well we are not sure what we found, but he was an ordained Christian minister. Weird was an understatement.
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So two months later Sandy is drawing magic circles on the ground and doing conjurations in a clearing on our island. Some were cloth and parchment. Sandy directed the minister in a number of shapes, symbols and letters that need to be drawn by the minister. This was quite the elaborate ritual; a cow was staked out in the middle as a sacrifice along with a rat as a symbol of his animagus form. The knife that killed Wormtail and his wand were added. We were on schedule and heading towards midnight, the torches lit the entire area with an eerie light.
I took out the bloody broom and jersey and Sandy entered them and a bar of silver into the circle. If Wormtail's hand was part of the ritual that brought back Voldemort, Volde's blood would have use in this ceremony to call back Wormtail. Now when Sandy pulled Peters complete body back to the living we hoped that it was enough to disassemble what made Volde whole. Thus when he had collapsed or hopefully died that we could hunt down the body and destroy it so the horicux had no place to live.
"Alright, I need you three to back up to the edge of the clearing. Under no circumstances are you to talk, yell, or approach this circle. This circle and symbols are to keep all the nastiness that can be brought into the circle and in the end to where they came from. Any interaction with you and just about anything could happen include your deaths or worse."
And so it began:
Sandy is doing his incantations as he slowly circles the circle. The minister is doing the same, both never entering the circle. The touches dimmed or the circle brightened and something was happening in the circle but it was misty or shimmering. Through the haze I could see the cow and rat were disappearing and two humans were taking their place.
~"Morgana, we got Wormtail alright but it looks like Voldemort tagged along" I not sure if it was the girls yelling in my head or their hold on me but I stopped heading for the circle.
It was Volde alright and he was not happy. He was firing A-Ks out as fast as he could fire them; it looked like he was afraid of something. The A-Ks just stopped at the edge of the circle and I feared that we had messed up and were in deep dragon dung. The dim light changed as did the clarity of the inner circle. A bright light the size of the circle exploded upwards without a sound. There in the circle were a dozen things that were sort of human, some with horns, some with wings all circling around a human leaning on a staff and laughing like "?" hell was an appropriate word.
Voldemort was now directing his curses at the being with the staff which seemed to make it laugh all the more. As it began the light was sucked down into the earth leaving nothing in the circle. Sandy and the minister broke the circle.
The minister was babbling as he sprinkled holy water throughout the circle and then yelled, I am leaving this place to find a church, send my fees to my address as I do not want to ever see you lot ever again."
Sandy approached and asked, "Do you have a place were we can get a drink and discuss what just happened?"
"Err, yes" was as far as I got when Daf and Moine grabbed us and 'faded' us to our living room.
The elf was told to leave the bottle of brandy and after a large swallow I was able to talk, "That person in the circle, that was a magicians staff, who was he?"
"Lucifer, Satan if you want to ask his name or about staffs or his correct name? Better leave all those questions for the scholars and priests reflection but yes that was the devil. Further that was a magical staff just like we use. Looks like he liked your sacrifices because he took the whole lot and he doesn't return sacrifices or do refunds."
"So Voldemort is gone?" I was in a daze of sorts with a thousand questions and totally unable to express them.
"He will need to have that body to return and if Sandy is correct and the Devil doesn't do a return, which means his horicux can't work anymore." Daf whispered.
"In my entire life that has held true" Sandy laughed.
Hermione just had to try and pour water on a warm fire, "Well that's not overly reassuring the Devil has been around for thousands of years and you?"
Sandy just laughed, "My nickname is Sandy and I never did introduce myself. Let me correct that, my real name is Nicholas Flamel" and with that he disappeared leaving only a deposit number for his fee.
I was shocked and said, "Well I'll be d…" the girls stopped me from finishing that sentence.
Fin