Chapter 21

Harry was really starting to hate portkey travel. When the world stopped spinning he groaned and picked himself up. He was given a second or two to realise he was in a graveyard before there was a flash and he was dragged up against a gravestone. He growled when he realised what had happened.

'Pettigrew!'

The rat faced man smirked at him as he tightened the binds. Harry struggled as he watched Peter head over to a huge lit cauldron. The man squatted down where a bundle of robes was sitting.

'Everything is ready Master'.

'Begin!'

Harry's breath caught as Peter lifted up what could only be Voldemort.

'Harry Potter. Your blood shall be used to revive me, and then I shall kill you!' the ugly baby like thing hissed.

Harry fought down the panic as it was placed into the cauldron, causing a splash. He heard a hissing sound and glanced down to find a massive snake slithering over to the cauldron. Well this was not turning out to be a good day.

As Peter scurried around, there was a quiet pop behind Harry.

'We's be here Master Harry' he heard and breathed a sigh of relief.

Dobby and Winky snapped their fingers and everything froze. Winky then snapped hers again and Harry's bindings dropped to the ground.

'Thank you' Harry breathed.

'We's not be letting anything happen to Harry Potter' Dobby replied.

Harry had the Elves keep an eye on the others, while he took a quick look round to figure out where he was. He spotted a sign and smiled, heading back to the cauldron.

'Guys we need to get all this sorted out. I need one of you to tell Mad-Eye where we are. Pop him here if you have to, just make sure he gets here to see all this. If you can get anyone else here then great. We need people to see Pettigrew alive so we can help Sirius'.

Winky nodded and popped away after Harry gave her the location. He brought out his wand and carefully peeked over the side of the cauldron. The water wasn't quite at boiling point, he figured Pettigrew was going to add more to it first. His blood being one ingredient. Well, it would make for an interesting way of leaving a body. Now what was that spell?

'Incendio!'

He concentrated hard on the cauldron, making it grow hotter and hotter until the water began to bubble furiously. He didn't stop when there was an almighty scream from inside. Finally he sent out a blast of magic that tipped the cauldron over, covering the frozen snake and burning it to death.

Exhausted Harry slumped against the nearest gravestone. Perhaps he should have used his wand. As he sat looking at the gruesome scene, he wondered what might have happened if he hadn't discovered wandless magic. He glanced at his ring, wouldn't have known about that. Wouldn't have known about Crouch either. In fact he wouldn't have known about a lot of things. The worst part, he felt, was that he would never have had the courage to do all the things he did. Telling off Draco. Asking Luna to be his girlfriend. He would likely have still been under Dumbledore's thumb, totally ignorant to everything around him.

'Is Harry Potter alright?'

He smiled at the little Elf.

'Yeah Dobby. I'm great. Just a lot to take in'.

Dobby nodded. His Harry was always being put in bad places. Dobby was glad he could help. And he was glad Winky could help too. She was nice.

They glanced over as Winky popped back. With her was a young looking woman with bright pink hair.

'Mad-Eye be coming once he tells others' Winky explained.

Harry thanked her and turned to the woman.

'I guess that means you're an Auror?'

'That's me. Name's Tonks' she replied, looking a little green at the scene. Harry explained what happened while she prodded the roasted baby man. She let out a whoop when she saw Peter.

'I knew Sirius was innocent! I just knew it!'

The arrival of Mad-Eye, Amelia Bones and a team of Aurors had Harry explaining everything again. Mad-Eye told him they'd got Crouch and even had Albus under investigation. Amelia, after introducing herself, also mentioned that the information given to her by Dobby meant that she was also looking to bring Lucius Malfoy in for questioning. This time with truth serum.

As the team poked around the sight, Harry pulled out his phone and dialled. He made a note to give a phone to Luna as it rang.

'Harry? Where are you?! Cedric saw you touch the cup and disappear but you didn't reappear outside the maze! And then everything went crazy! What is going on?!'

Harry couldn't help but laugh. He toyed around with a white wand that Pettigrew had dropped, before snapping it and throwing it over his shoulder.

'Hey Hermione. Might wanna get the others to listen in. You're not gonna believe what's happened this time' Harry replied.

The End