The Power He Knows Not

by Goodpie2

ABANDONED on account of poor execution. A rewrite is a possibility- see my profile for details. At the age of four, Harry accidentally apparates to a strange underwater city, where he is rescued and raised by a crazy man in a mask. By the time Dumbledore finds him, Harry has discovered the "power he knows not"- ADAM.

14. I Hate This Chapter

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Well, that was fun.

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I'm boooored and I don't know what to do with this story...

See, this is why we don't write without a net. I'm not sure what writing with a net entails, but I'm told that this is why we don't do it.

"They're WHAT!?" cried Harry, staring in disbelief at the headmaster.

"The Ministry of Magic is going to erase your father's memory as soon as he's out of Saint Mungo's," Dumbledore repeated. "Not all of it, just the parts relating to magic."

"They can't do that! You can't just erase somebody's memories!" Harry exclaimed. "That's murder!" Harry couldn't believe what he was hearing. A person's memories was who they were. If you change or erase the memories, you change the person entirely. He'd learned that when Dad had taught him about the heroes of Rapture- Jack Ryan and Subject Delta. Jack Ryan's entire life had been fake. His whole personality had been intentionally created through the insertion of certain specific memories into his brain. Subject Delta had been the opposite. Before his transformation, the man known as Johnny Topside had been arrogant and self-centered. After he lost his memories, he spent several years as a slave with his "daughter" Eleanor. He'd been nearly mindless, but he'd formed memories of his love for Eleanor, and of her love for him. When he was given his freedom, he kept these memories, and the man known as Subject Delta had been selfless and kind.

"I know, I know," sighed Dumbledore, "And I've been fighting the practice for years. Besides the fact that we need to come out in the open in the first place, it's completely unfair to the muggles involved. But the practice is too deeply entrenched in wizarding society to do anything about it any time soon. Eventually, I think that the muggle-borns will be numerous enough to gain a reasonable standing in society, and then things will begin to change, but until then, there's nothing that can be done. m 20ddddddddddddddddddddddddfg I'm afraid your father is going to have his memory erased very shortly."

Harry thought about this for a little while. "So, what will happen to him, exactly?" he asked eventually.

"His memory will be modified to remove all knowledge of magic and wizards. Because the ministry doesn't know about Rapture or how I rescued you from it, and they don't know exactly what he knows or what he has been doing since his rescue, they will likely erase the past few months of his memories and say that he has been in a coma. Jason will lose custody of you, and you will have to live with the Dursleys again. As direct blood relatives of a wizard, they can legally know about magic."

"So, not only are they going to kill my father, they're going to force me to live with my abusive relatives again?"

Dumbledore looked uncomfortable at Harry's assertion that Jason would be killed, but simply nodded.

"In that case, I want to leave."

"What?" Dumbledore raised his eyebrows.

"I want to leave Hogwarts and move in with my father. If wizards murder anybody who finds out about them, I want nothing to do with them. I've managed to survive with Dad for six years. I expect that living with him in London will be a hell of a lot easier. It'll take some getting used to, and I'll miss my friends, and yes, it's a shame I won't be able to use magic, but if this is the only way I can stay with my dad, then that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make."

Dumbledore looked at him thoughtfully, and then spoke.

"You know, that may not be necessary. You're regarded as the hero of the wizarding world. This attack on you and your family- and make no mistake, that's what this is; Lucius Malfoy is manipulating a rarely used loophole in order to hurt you, most likely for attacking his son- will cause a public outrage the likes of which our world has never seen. If you, the Boy-Who-Lived, were to leave the wizarding world, the outrage would be all the greater. We could easily use this to cause major changes in laws and our society in general."

Harry considered this, then nodded.

"Fine. But if things don't change drastically, I'm not coming back."

"I can understand that." Dumbledore responded, then paused. "I was just about to go tell your father of his fate. I suppose this would be as good a time as any for you to go. And that way you can be with your father when he has his memory erased."

Harry nodded. "I'd like that. I'd like to be there for him when those bastards get to him."

Dumbledore stood. "I don't suppose there's anything else to do, then. Let's go."

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Holy crap, that was obscene. I've never had as hard a time writing ANYTHING before as I did with this chapter. I'm still not happy with it (frankly, I kinda hate parts of it), but I figured you guys have been waiting long enough, and after rewriting the entire thing three times, I figured I wasn't gonna improve it any.

I would also like to take the opportunity to explain that the attack on Harry is solely because Lucius Malfoy is involved. He's using his incredible political power to hurt Harry.

Sorry for the sucky chapter, but I had to write something to be able to progress with the story.

Also, should I post any half thought up story that I start, or should I wait until it gets somewhere? I have a pool in my account about that. If you vote on it, you get to use the diving board.

Lastly, please check out my Prototype/FMA crossover challenge. It's a story idea I came up with a while ago- it's something I'd very much like to see written.