An Author's Note: This story is now officially has the most chapters of anything I have ever written. Cool, huh?
Sorry for anyone who was looking for an exciting Quidditch match. I have just about decided that I'm none to good at this.
More dialogue ripped from the book coming your direction.
Also, I don't know if this is technically more crossovering, but there will be a bit of a Lord of the Rings reference here. Because dementors look an awful lot like a certain Middle-Earth critter…
Chapter 38
Speaking Out
The game went by very quickly after that. Anyone who knew Yami Yugi could have told you that he would catch that little golden ball and win the game without any trouble.
So, they did win, but that did not change the fact that Ron still had not managed to block a single goal. It was only by grace of the fact that the Snitch was worth one hundred and fifty points, and the fact that Yami Yugi had caught the thing before Hufflepuff could score more then fifty points, that they came out ahead.
Of course, since Bakura had finally managed to merge with his yami, they ended up nearly unseating or distracting the Hufflepuff team almost the entire match. He had kept the team away from Ron most of the time, but when they did get by his frantic batting the Hufflepuff chasers would score every time. Still, Bakura had done as much damage as both the Weasley twins had ever done.
However, his teammate's stunning performances had done nothing to cheer poor Ron, who seemed to be focused mostly on the rousing choruses of Weasley is Our King coming from the stands. Immediately after the game he fled, not willing to meet the eyes of anyone.
No one, not even Harry, could cheer him up that night.
The next day Bakura's breakfast was almost ruined by a dive bombing owl.
"Oh you better wish that letter is not for me…" the grouchy spirit growled. The owl gave him a nasty look and hopped across the table to Harry. Another soon joined it, then another and then another until there was a flock of birds hopping around a bemused looking wizard.
"What's going on?" Ron asked as the whole Gryffindor table (and one Egyptian Slytherin who just happened to be walking their direction) stared at the little flock.
"Harry! I think I know what this means-open this one first!" Hermione offered Harry a long cylindrical package, which contained a copy of the Quibbler. Under a picture of Harry were the words "Harry Potter Speaks Out at Last: The Truth About He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named and the Night I Saw Him Return"
Bakura snagged the magazine out of Harry's hands and examined it closely. While the others exclaimed over the letters, Bakura was getting an idea.
Meanwhile a certain frog shaped individual was waddling their direction.
"What is going on here?" she said in her fake sweet voice. Bakura glared at her. "Why have you got all these letters, Potter?"
"Is that a crime now? Getting mail?" Fred bellowed.
"Be careful, Mr. Weasley, or I shall have to put you in detention." Frog lady said "Well, Mr. Potter?"
Bakura looked at Harry, who all of a sudden got a very stubborn and aggressive look on his face. Harry reached over and grabbed the magazine from Bakura's hand.
"People have written to me because I gave an interview. About what happened to me last June." He said with a challenging glare. Bakura had to give Harry points, the guy did not look away from Umbridge's glare.
"An interview?" It was amazing how high Umbridge's voice could go "What do you mean?"
"I mean a reporter asked me questions and I answered them," Harry threw the magazine at Umbridge aggressively. "Here-"
Umbridge's face went through several interesting colors. "I have tried again and again to teach you not to tell lies-"
"Well it must have really sunk in, because I far as I am concerned there where no lies in that particular article!" Bakura spoke up.
Umbridge turned the Evil Eye his direction "You might be under the delusion that there are Death Eaters around but-"
"I was attacked by those 'delusions' not two months ago!" /Bakura, should we…?/
Once upon a time Bakura would never had consented to what they were about to do, but he had changed.
/Do it./
"Take a look at what those imaginary Death Eaters did to me!" Yami Bakura did not totally remove his robes, but he did show enough to make it quite clear that he was now covered with scars that had not been their before.
It gave Bakura great pleasure to see Umbridge recoil in horror.
"You! You both are now banned from Hogsmead! And you both have detentions!" Umbridge walked away, balling the magazine in her fist.
About halfway through the day Bakura was called to Professor McGonagall office.
"Mr. Bakrua" she said with a stern look "Professor Umbridge has just told me a rather interesting story. Apparently she believes that you have harmed yourself voluntarily, then made up stories about how you were attacked by Death Eaters."
Bakura stared at her "What?"
McGonagall tightened her jaw, clearly irritated. Probably at Umbridge "Apparently she believes that you are sadomasochistic, how she came up to this conclusion is beyond me. I am to give you a lecture on harming yourself."
Yami Bakura took over "In other words she is so bound and determined to belive that there are no Death Eaters that she is making up lies about me?" he growled.
"Exactly."
"Have you considered therapy for her?" Yami Bakura asked.
McGonagall made a face that looked like she was trying to be a smile, but her mouth really did not work that way "I am not sure any amount of therapy could help her."
"No joke." Bakura said.
They stared at each other for a while.
"Well then, I suppose we have wasted enough time to be believable. Consider yourself lectured, Mr. Bakura." McGonagall said "Now go and do something…productive."
Bakura smirked.
He did indeed go and do something productive. He made another copy of the Voice. The front article read thusely:
Harry Potter Reveals The Truth of Voldemort's Resurrection, But Is There More To the Story Then Meets The Eye?
Harry Potters latest brave act in a long line of brave acts was to reveal the truth of Lord Voldemort's return to power. Against the great pink adversity he has stood tall and told the truth that the world needs to know.
But is Harry Potter's harrowing tale the only one out there?
Surly not, for we at the Voice have received word of three other attacks, all of which happened to Hogwarts students this year.
The first we heard about was an attack on Japanese transfer student Ryou Bakura. He claims that, at the start of the Christmas holiday he was attacked and tortured by a group of wizards that strongly resembled Death Eaters. He might have been killed had not a decent wizard who wishes to remain anonymous saved his life. This wizard will not reveal his identity for his safety, not just from the Death Eaters, but from the Ministry as well.
The second attack also happened on Christmas, a group of students, who also wish to be unnamed, were attacked by dementors. This was not the only dementor attack to happen recently. Harry Potter was also attacked again at the beginning of winter, an event that was carefully edited from the Daily Prophet. Also edited was the fact that the Ministry insisted on holding a full criminal trial for the offence of defending oneself from an evil entity.
Some might say that the Death Eaters are working alone, without the aid of Voldemort. However, the evidence of a dementor attack adds a sinister piece to the puzzle.
People believe that as long as dementors are controlling Azkaban they are safe. They believe that dementors are just beasts.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
Once, the dementors were men.
They began as mortal men given nine rings by the first Dark Lord. The rings gave these Nine power, but also corrupted then into the beasts you see today. They served the Dark, and still do to this day. From the Nine sprung more and more, they spread like a poison on the land. They have been called many things: Úlairi, Fell Riders, Black Wings, Nine Servants of the Lord of the Rings, The Nine and Shriekers.
But the most common name is Nazgûl or Ringwraiths.
While the original Nine were destroyed, those that were pierced by the dark blades of Mordor eventually became the same as the Nine. They spread wherever pure evil was.
They are evil. They will never be anything but evil.
And the only reason they have not attacked before is because they have had no Dark Lord to serve.
Until now.
Unless the Ministry does not dismiss these wretched creatures then one day the skies above Hogwarts will be blacked by the wings of their Fell Beasts.
It has happened before.
It can happen again.
This article, as you might expect, caused a bit of a stir.
Especially when Binns declared it somewhat factual.
"Well," he said in his dull voice in several classes "It is true there are legends of creatures called Nazgûl. I don't know if they actually were supposed to be dementors, but there are similarities in the descriptions."
Umbridge was bound and determined not to believe it. She called the account a scare tactic to make the Ministry look bad, and said the sources were unreliable. She claimed that the Nazgûl never existed. That they where just stories and myth.
Hermione did some investigating in the library, and found a very old book about magical creatures. Modern books did not have Nazgûl, but this one did.
And the illustration was a perfect representation of a dementor.