Another of my ten minute exercises, times 2!
Title: An Elbow Up
Harry was reeling from the possession by Tom Riddle in the atrium of the
Ministry.. He had just seen Sirius killed by a not so random curse from an
unknown assailant and then his pursuit of Bellatrix resulting in her impromptu
lesson in how to cast the cruciatus curse and then watching Dumbledore and
Voldemort fight.
The effect of Voldemort posessing him was twofold, the more important of which
was this.. When Voldemort was pushed out of is mind, he took the remaining
horcrux with him. At the time Harry did not know what this horcrux thing was,
but he did know that fr the first time in years he could see and think clearly,
in fact he had to take his glasses off to be able to see, a side effect of the
thing in his head was alteration of his vision.. He subtly stuffed his glasses
in his pocket and out of the peripheral vision watched the movements of those
around him, where Dumbledore was , and the aurors, and the Minister, and most
importantly where his friends were. He knew they were closeby but could not see
them directly. He could feel the prescence of Dumbledore and his magical core,
as well as many of the people around, most quite a bit weaker than the old mans,
but he could certainly feel those of his friends, even from two levels away.. He
heard dumbledore talking to the Minister, something about taking 'the children'
back to Hogwarts to be checked out, and the Minister shuffling about trying to
control the situation when he felt The Headmaster grasp his arm and say "This
will feel a bit odd, Harry, but it will last only a moment.
They appeared in the Head office, with the spinny shiny things, with the books
and artifacts about.
Dumbledore tried to pull the 'kindly grandfather thing and thereby keep Harry in
his control.. Harry just stood there, slumped obver in a daze.. at least that's
what it looked like.
The old man puttered around te office a bit, waving his wand at a teakettle and
then coming around his desk to where Harry still stood.
"Harry, you mustn't blame yourself for Sirius' death, it wasn't your fault, He
was acting erratically and taunting his cousin, you see.. and unfortunately
Bellatrix is mad, so, you see.."
"The prophecy.. when were you going to tell me?"
"Oh, yes, well, I wanted you to have a happy childhood, and not need to worry
about such things"
"Some childhood, I suppose if you are a masochist it might be happy..."
The old man ut his arm around Harrys shoulder and was about to lift the boy's
chin, but was dissuaded from that by a hard sharp elbow in the gut. As he
doubled over in pain Harry spun to the left out of the old man's arm and
grabbed him by the back of the head and slammed said head into the hard wooden
desk.
Harry stood over the slumped headmaster momentarily and as he kicked the wand
out of reach that had somehow appeared in the old man's hand, he called Dobby
The elf appeared in a trice.
"Dobby, ward this office against all intruders."
Dobby sprung into action and there was no way to get into the office in very
short order
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next part ten again.
He pointed at the old man lying on the floor, still unconcious.
"No wands, no weapons, portkeys, nothing..then bind him."
a nanny spell and the old man was in his thermal skivvies and no socks or shoes,
on the desk was a small pile of objects, some of which Harry couyld feel had
power, the most of which was an old looking wand.
"What do you think Dobb? You have had to deal with powerful dark wizards before,
do you think Verateserum would work on him?
Dobby looked pensive,
and spoke in a proper English accent and voice.
"No, no I don't, not human made Veritaserum, though Goblin Tc'Chanth might do
the trick..if we can get some from them..
Well, I expect that over the last hundred years this old coot may have offended
them in some way, don't you?"
Harry spoke with a grin
Dobby had the same grin.. an evil grin..
"I will just pop over to Gringotts for a bit and see if I can talk someone high
up out of some Tc"Chanth, no?
The elf rolled his eyes and tried to look innocent.
"Well don't give away too much, I have an idea.. while you're out get some
Draught of the living death, ok?"
Dobby cocked an eyebrow at this one.
"You are going to try something tricky, arent you.."
"I'll say I am, this idiot got my betrothed hurt quite badly, and this is the
last time I will let him capture control of me.. it's time he pays."
"Ok, I'm off." Dobby popped away.
Harry shook his head as the old man tried to clear his head enough to think.
"All Potter elves to me"
sixty elves appeared in the room with a collective pop.
The eldest stepped forward.
"Yes Master?"
"Thank you all for coming.. Charles, I want you to oversee the retreival of all
Potter goods and belongings in the castle, starting with this office. If the
item is too noticeable leave a duplicate, and don't miss anything.
Next, I want all books and texts in this and the private quarters copied and
stored in the Pottery, if any of the books or texts are ours, remove them
completely. put blank books in their place."
"Bwh bwaha? The old man's unswelled eye waved around, trying to focus on who
held him captive.
He had a hard time talking because several of his teeth were knocked out, and
the impact of his face on the desk had cut his tongue rather badly, thus his
mouth was drooling blood.
Harry turned as Dobby reappeared with a companion. He held up two vials and
wiggled his eyebrows as the Goblin with him looked around.
The elves were hastily moving and duplicating books and parchment and within a
few moments had the task at hand done.. Surprisingly, among other things they
took the desk, chairs and Fawkes' perch. The bird flapped a moment of hovering
as a replacement perch was conjured under him.
He eyed the activity and nodded once and went back to sleep.
ten seconds later all the elves except Dobby and Charles were gone.
"Well Mr Potter, or shall I say, Lord Potter, it appears that your letter from
earlier this year was correct, so, you have taken action, What option do you
wish the Goblin nation to take at this time?"
"Master Slipknife, I only remembered that I had options with the Goblin nation
tonight, it seems that the previous 9 months I have been obliviated or memories
bound.. Tonight I was momentarily possessed by Tom Riddle, and in his being
driven out, he took the mind bindings with him.. I remember everything"
Nine months before, in a conversation with Sirius.
"you mean that this whole thing, my whole bloody life has been manipulated by
the old Bastard? He is the one responsible for m parents getting killed? for
Neville's parents, for ALL of this"
Harry was waving his hands wildly indicating the whole of his life and
surroundings.
"I was there at the writing of the Will Harry, so was he, He knows that you were
NEVER supposed to come here, because your parents knew what kind of people these
'people' are Sirius waved his hand negligently at the bound and gagged Durslys
which were piled on their couch in their oh so perfect home.
Harry stood in the middle of the living room glaring death at his relatives, and
each of them was internally wondering if they had gone too far in their abuse of
the young wizard.. they had no excuse, they had had no outside interference, no
potions, no spells cast, their evil abuse and mistreatment was all them.
"I'm outta here and I refuse to ever come back here, understand?"
"Fine by me Pup, lets go to Gringotts and get access to your millions of
galleons and your many properties..and companies that you own. You need to take
an active interest in your business holdings, you know..Harry turned from
glaring at his relatives and called Dobby.
The elf appeared silently "yes sir?"
"Get all my belongings from this place, I am never returning here.
In a few seconds all of Harry's belongings appeared and on top of his trunk was
another smaller trunk engraved with the name Lily Evans on the front.
He laid a hand on it and looked over to his Aunt.
The fire burning in his eyes was clearly death imminent, and Petunia forgot to
breath,
Sirius spoke. holding Harry back from his imminent leap of anger
"It looks as if you may have withheld something of Harry's heritage from him..
He may not ever come back here, but I. will. be. back..
there's nowhere that you run in this world that I cannot find you.."
with that he made a grand gesture and with a lightning bolt crack the three
magicals were gone.
The Dursleys lay in puddles of their own making for an hour before the bonds
evaporated.
Sirius Harry and Dobby had visited Slipknife at Gringotts and went over the
possible scenarios that might happen over the next school year.
This came from reading the updated chapters of Zarkham's Order of the Stag..
I have a vague idea of where I want to go with it..
basically Harry confronts AD in his office and then heals him, or has one of is
elves do it, and dose him with the Draught of the living death and once that is
done, sets it up so it looks like Dumbledore keeled over in his office,
aftereffects of the duel with Voldemort, they have a grand burial and dumbledore
is put in a tomb, after a moth goes by and things calm down, the Goblins spirit
away the body and take him to goblin territory and strip his mind of all plans
and schemes, and take away all his ill gotten gains, by way of a 'new will'
leaving Harry as the heir apparent etc.
Sirius? he survives, by apparating backward twenty feet when he falls into the
veil, no one sees him hit the wall head first in the dark shadows of the veil
room, and he wakes up hours later with a concussion. Her rejoins Harry as a
shadowy figure never seen in public, takes the name Lamont Cranston and no
wizard has any idea of who he is.
Hermione has joined Harry as his betrothed between 4th and 5th year, but they
are secret, this is why he is so upset when she is hurt. also remembering what
had happened during 5th year, very early in the year, He had been obliviated and
controlled by Dumbledore in an effort to get rid of sirius,
I suppose this stoy has some ideas, but it is basically a rehash of a theme.. it
basically served as an attempt to get an idea out of my head, the idea of Harry
knowing who his enemy is and lashing out physically, and taking advantage of
this.
Since I have this written down, it's done and I can get back to other things.
It is unlikely I will ever write this story, if you want to write it, feel free, but let me know so I can read it and find out what happens next.
TimW
