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The Defense Against the Dark Arts Teacher

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Chapter 24

The Once and Future Dark Lord

Slowly Benjamin made his way deeper and deeper into the chamber until the stairs led him to a stone floor. Walking down a long narrow corridor the DADA professor stopped at a sliver door barred by equally sliver snakes.

"Open" He hissed at the door.

At once the door opened and Benjamin entered a room the size of the Great Hall, expect the majesty of the hall was replaced with a dull gray room, half destroyed marble columns, and at the very end was a statue of Salazar Slytherin that was tall of the ceiling. The mouth was wide enough and it appeared to open.

"Speaker the journal." Slick warned

But it was too late as with a burst of magic Benjamin was knocked to the floor. As a few feet away the journal began to shake and out of it a person began to appear. In a few moments Tom Riddle stood in front of the teacher. The professor went for his cane but Riddle summoned it to his hands and cast a Body Bind on the man.

Riddle stalked closer to Benjamin, "I must say having my journal fall into your hands was a stroke of good fortune. All it took for me to gain the magic to fully emerge was one entry from you. If I was still in the hands of that Weasley girl it would be months before I could act."

"Tom Riddle?"

The young man gave a sick smile, "Also you are powerful enough to fight your way through my Body Bind curse. Yes when I finish absorbing your soul I will have enough power to bring this world to its knees, and wipe out the muggles and half breeds."

Out of the corner of his eye Benjamin saw Slick slithering toward the journal.

"Well you may have some competition for that; there is a fool who calls himself Voldemort who wants to do the same thing."

At the mention of Voldemort Riddle's smiled grew.

"So despite the so called "victory" by Harry Potter I did survive."

Benjamin simply raised an eyebrow.

Riddle shook his head as with a wave of the cane his named appeared in the air and after they were rearranged they formed the sentence I am Lord Voldemort.

Whatever Riddle expected it wasn't for his captive to laugh.

"That is how you chose your name, by a childhood anagram, how many times did you have to do that to get a decent name 5, 10, 20 times?!" Benjamin kept laughing.

"ENOUGH!" Riddle bellowed as with a wave Benjamin's body became stiff. "This is a name that wizards still fear to utter, even though they believe me dead. Voldemort is my past, present, and future."
Benjamin chuckled, "Do you know what the future holds for you? You lose by the hand of a toddler, and afterward you become nothing more than a parasite. YOU FAIL!"

Riddle walked so that he was a few feet from the professor. "But now in part thanks to you I have a chance to rewrite history."

The speech was cut short as his body began to shine; both of them looked to see Slick had bit down on the journal. Riddle was distracted so Benjamin took the opportunity, broke the curse, unsheathed the blade from his cane and plunged it into Riddles chest. The last look that Riddle had was one of pure shock as he exploded in a burst of magic.

Benjamin took a few breaths and turned his gaze to the statue of Salazar.

"The Basilisk is in there." Slick answered the unasked question

"Be ready for anything. Open." The DADA teacher said

The statue's mouth slid open and a pair of large yellow eyes appeared and out of the darkness and snake uncoiled itself and circled around the snake and man. It truly was monstrous in length as it was easily half the length of the whole room, but Benjamin simply watched the beast's head until it rested mere inches from his face. It flicked it tongue and touched his cheek.

"Father?" The Basilisk spoke in a deep bellowing voice "No father is long dead, but your reminds me of his. You are closer than the other heir was."

"We did you attack the school you were put in charge to protect?" Benjamin asked

"The false heir forced me with dark spells and curses. But the destruction of the book has freed my mind. For the first time in nearly half a century I am myself yet again."

"Why did Salazar breed you?"

"I was to be the final weapon of the school. If the school fell I was to be released in order to kill the intruders and protect the rest of the students, or if all the students were dead to kill the rest of the intruders to protect the secretly of the wizarding world."

"What would you have done afterward?"

"I do not know neither situation has come to pass."

"I can't leave you here, the false heir still lives and if he ever regains a body he could control you once again. But killing you would be a waste."

"May I suggest heir that I transfer my soul to you?"

"What? How?" Benjamin asked

"The process is simple, yet painful and time consuming. I bite you and transfer my soul and magic into your body and when the process is complete I will become a tattoo on your body. You will be able to summon me at your whim but I warn you it will take most of your magic to do so,"

Benjamin gave it a moment of thought and then turned to Slick, "Watch the entrance" The smaller snake nodded as it went off.

Benjamin shrugged off his robe, "Before we do this is there anything left that Riddle didn't take from here?"

The Basilisk nodded and it's tail went back inside the statue and came out with a wand. It was thirteen inches and colored pitch black with a pair of sliver snakes on the handle, the snake handed it to Benjamin. When the wand touched his hand a blindly light emerged from the tip.

"When the false heir touched it the wand did nothing. This further proves you are truly father's rightful heir."

Benjamin nodded, "Bite me high up on the neck where it will be least visible."

The King of Snakes nodded as it sank its teeth into the man's neck. The last thing Benjamin felt before he blacked out was a searing pain as if a mixture of fire and acid was shooting through his veins.

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