Chapter Twenty; The Deathly Hallows

The next morning Harry and Tobey woke up and fed their animals before getting dressed and going downstairs to use the bathroom. Then Harry let Cowboy outside so he could use the bathroom as well. As soon as he spotted Chance outside Hagrid's hut, he started running around and playing with him. Once Cowboy was properly tired out, Harry took him back inside and allowed him a drink of water before going to breakfast.

He sat down next to his brother who had already been eating his meal when suddenly Ginny came over to join them. "That's it! I've had it with Malfoy!" she snapped crumbling up a piece of paper in her hands.

"Why? What has that bastard done this time?" Ron asked her.

"Ronald!" Hermione exclaimed with a scowl.

"What!?" he cried.

"You shouldn't use that kind of language in front of Tobey." She told him.

"Why not? It's not like he's never heard that word before." He told her glancing over inside his direction.

"Yeah but that doesn't mean that you should forget what McGonagall said about being a good role model." She told him. "Besides, it's not very Christian like." She added.

"I just became a Christian remember, I'm still getting used to it." Ron told her when suddenly she looked over at Ginny.

"I'm sorry Ginny, what were you going to say?" she asked her.

"Look what Malfoy did, he was passing this out to all of his Slytherin friends." She said before handing the crumbled up piece of paper over to Hermione and quickly turning her head while she unfolded it.

"Make sure that you follow Harry Christ or end up going to Hell." Hermione read aloud as Harry feel his blood start to broil with anger before she continued on reading. "In what the papers are calling Harry Snape as the chosen one, he is becoming known as the next Jesus Christ. For that is probably why McGonagall has asked him to be the next headmaster and Snape's murderous sins have been forgiven because of his relation to him." Hermione said as Harry leapt up to his feet and snatched it out of her hands.

"That's it! I've had it! When he starts making fun of me that's one thing, but when he starts making fun of both my earthly father and heavenly Father that's a whole different story!" he yelled angrily and started ripping up the note into a million pieces.

"Listen Harry, I don't blame you for being angry. But please don't do anything you'll regret. After all, he's only doing it because he wants attention." She told him.

"Fine! But I still think that he should burn in Hell!" he spat before scattering all of the pieces of paper on the ground and started walking away.

"That's an inspirational message for a potential Sunday school teacher." Ron said sarcastically. "Although I have to admit that I do agree with him." He said as Hermione scowled and rolled her eyes. That's when suddenly Snape walked over to their table.

"Well good morning you four." He began with a grin. "Where's Harry?" he asked them.

"He just left cursing Malfoy to Hell." Ron told him as a questioning and bewildered look grew onto Snape's face.

"Well, may I ask why?" he wondered.

"He wrote a note to all of his friends how saintly Harry is and making fun of his religion." Ron told him.

"Really? That never seemed to bother him before. But don't worry I'll go talk to him." He said before turning over to face his youngest son and handed him an envelope. "This is from your mother congratulating you for making Gryffindor. Your bird just gave it to me." He told him as Tobey grinned proudly before his father grinned back down at him before turning back around and walking away.

He finally found Harry sitting out in the courtyard smoking a cigarette. "Are you alright son?" he questioned him while he continued standing in front of the door.

"No. I just don't understand how we're supposed to forgive people when they act like that." Harry said turning his head and blowing out a puff of smoke. "I mean I know that it's what God wants us to do, but sometimes Malfoy just pisses me off." He said.

"Do you want to know why?" Snape asked him as Harry quickly turned his head to look back at him. "It's because you let him. Listen Harry, there will all be a day where every single one of us will be judged for the mistakes we've made. And in the end even Malfoy will have to pay for them. However you have one of the warmest and kindest hearts that I know. And God is well aware of that too. I know how much you love Him and so does He.

That's why I know that you'll end up making a great Sunday school teacher someday. You don't have to prove anything though. You'll wind up being a stronger person if you just let all the hate and anger that you have towards Malfoy go and forgive him. Not for him but for yourself. Do you understand?" he asked him as Harry just simply nodded at him. "Good. Do you need a hug?" he asked him as Harry nodded again and flicked the ashes off of his cigarette before he stood up and walked over to him.

"I love you." His father told him as he wrapped his arms around him and hugged his shoulders tightly.

"I love you too." Harry said resting his head down on his chest before they broke apart.

"Now go ahead and finish your breakfast. I'm sure that your friends are concerned about you by now." He said as Harry looked up at him and nodded again before he turned and walked back inside.

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Later on that morning Tobey traveled to his first potions class while Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Neville went to go to history of magic. "How are you feeling?" Hermione asked Harry as they started walking down the hallway together as Harry just simply shrugged.

"A little bit better." He said.

"You shouldn't let him get to you you know. That's what he wants." She told him.

"I know. My dad told me the same thing. At least Tobey won't have to worry about him for most of his years at Hogwarts though." He said.

"Yeah, but he'll still have to worry about that Madison girl and she doesn't seem that much better. In fact, she makes Eve look like a saint compared to her!" Ron spat as they finally turned the corner and walked into their classroom. Harry wondered how his brother was doing right now as the first years generally always started off learning about the cure for boils. Harry stifled a laugh when he thought about the look on his little brother's face when he'd learn that pretty soon he'd start looking like a pizza just as he had his first year.

"Good morning class, and welcome to your seventh and final year at Hogwarts." Professor Binns began. "The first thing we will be learning about is whether or not you're born a wizard or muggle, all legends have some truth to them. Who can give me an example of a famous legend in the muggle world?" he questioned when suddenly Hermione's hand shot up into the air and Ron simply just rolled his eyes as Binns pointed over at her.

"Yes Miss Granger?" he questioned.

"Bigfoot." She replied with a proud grin.

"That's right, ten points to Gryffindor." He told her as Ron rolled his eyes again.

"Oh please, even Tobey could have come up with that." He said.

"Now in the muggle world Bigfoot is basically a giant gorilla, but that's because in the magical world he is. You see there is a saying that often goes around in both worlds that goes monkey see monkey do. Eventually word got out amongst the muggles of a creature that we call an apis. It looks like a monkey but behaves like a man. Hence how the muggles came up with the idea of Tarzan but just had the two of them reversed. Now who has heard of the stories of Beedle the Bard?" he questioned them as nearly every hand raised up into the air this time.

"Good, and who is familiar with the tale of The Three Brothers?" he asked them as once again almost every hand shot up. "Harry, do you think you can tell us what it's about?" he questioned as Harry once again felt very shocked and taken aback but Professor Binns nodded at him encouragingly and he decided to recite it the best he could.

"Well, I think the story goes that once there were these three brothers who had crossed a winding bridge to meet death." He began. "They all asked for something useful. The first brother asked for the most powerful wand in the world, while the second brother asked for something that would bring his beautiful bride back to life. And the last brother asked for the power of invisibility. So death had fashioned the first brother a wand out of an elder tree.

However the brother ended up killing another wizard and later on that same night death transformed into a murderous wizard and slit his throat for good measure. Then after death took the first brother the second brother used a resurrection stone to try and bring his bride back to life." He said even though he thought this part of the story was pointless since only God could bring people back to life but he continued on.

"However when he saw that she was only a mere image he hung himself and death took the second brother. That's when the third brother finally shed the cloak of invisibility that death had given him before he finally gave it to his son and joined his other two brothers in the afterlife." Harry finished as Professor Binns nodded at him once again.

"Very good Harry, twenty points to Gryffindor." He told him as the rest of the class started to applaud. "You see class, the story that Harry just told us is that of the Deathly Hallows." He said when suddenly Harry heard that voice inside his mind again.

"It rests in the ground with him." A voice that he had believed to be Voldemort's hissed and that's when suddenly everything made sense to him. That's what Voldemort had been after this whole entire time. The Elder wand.