Q: So are these the X-Men from the comics? Because is Wanda referencing the conclusion of M-Day?
A: They are mixture of both comics and the movie version, but leaning bit towards the movie version. And yes, Wanda is referencing the M-Day. In this universe, M-Day almost happened but the X-Men were able to stop Wanda from saying the infamous "No more Mutants."
Q: Here's a question that's been bothering me, why haven't James and Lily and the Weasleys pressed charges on Dumbledore for the use of a love potion on Ginny? Aiden confessed that it was Dumbledore's idea to use a love potion to make Ginny fall for Aiden and he had no problem with it either. And why isn't Dumbledore being charged for his part in Aidens death? He didn't cast the curse that killed the little prick but he lead him to his death in the end.
A: That will explained in this chapter.
Q: Didn't Sirius made harry his heir by blood adopt?
A; Nope. That never happened.
Q: I have a line you could use somewhere: Harry to Dumbledore: "It's for the Greater Good of your continued existance to leave me the hell alone."
A: Thank you!
Q: Out of all the ideas and suggestion you get, which one was your favorite?
A: I don't necessarily have a favorite. I mean, if I used them in my fic, it means that I loved it enough. I guess if I had to pick, I would have to say Cj's suggestion about Harry Potter and Ace Attorney crossover. I don't know how he knew but I happened to be a huge Ace Attorney fan and the idea excited me. So I wrote a long one shot called "Turnabout Love Potion" check it out if you have time.
Thank you all for your compliments! Shout outs to those who offered me fabulous suggestions!
Harry Potter series belongs to JK Rowling. The X Men belongs to Stan Lee, Jack Kirby and the Marvel company.
eXtra power twin
Chapter 51: Aftermath and new year
The head of Gringotts, Ragnok was in his office writing on a parchment. He and the Goblins, unlike the rest of the wizarding Britain, were not overly concerned about what has been going on recently.
Goblin's didn't care if there was a Dark Lord or not, as they never meddled with the wizard's affair. They were neutral during the first war, and they were going to do the same during the second war.
Then, Ragnok heard a knock on his office door.
"Enter." said Ragnok and one of his employee, Griphook came in.
"Sir, I have something to report." said Griphook. "Something… very odd has happened. I've never seen a situation like this in all my time working here."
"Explain."
"Well, we were doing the weekly check ups of the vaults and one of the object was found completely destroyed." explained Griphook.
"Destroyed? Are you telling me there has been a break in?" demanded Ragnok.
"No sir. That's actually what I find to be peculiar. There is no sign of break in. Also, nothing has been taken. We were checking the vault and we just saw the charred area of where that object used to be." said Griphook.
"Have you figured out the cause?" asked Ragnok.
"That's another thing I was going bring up. We have no idea what destroyed the object. We've checked all known methods and we even brought the Curse Breaker to figure out the cause. But we couldn't find out at all." said Griphook. "It was as if some unknown source of magic annihilated that object."
Ragnok went into a deep thought. This certainly was peculiar. He too, never experienced a situation like this in all his career at Gringotts, which was a very long time. A supposed thief somehow managed to dodge all kinds of curse and traps within Gringotts not to take anything, but to destroy something using a magic unknown to both wizards and Goblins. Peculiar indeed.
"What vault, and what object was it anyway?" asked Ragnok.
"It was the Lestrange vault and the object was the cup." answered Griphook.
"The Lestrange vault?" said Ragnok. He instantly knew what cup Griphook was talking about. The object was infamous among the Goblins. So much so that even him, the head of Gringotts knew about it.
As mentioned before, Goblins did not meddle with wizard's affair and therefore didn't care what the wizards stored in their vaults. The Goblins had seen their fair share of dark items but the cup was a whole new level of dark. So much so that some Goblins even suggested that for first and only time, they refuse to store a client's item.
"Did you say it was completely destroyed? Not even a trace of it is left?" asked Ragnok.
"Yes. All there is left is the charred walls near it." said Griphook.
"Very well then. Continue on with your work." said Ragnok.
"Sir, should I notify the owner of the vault about this news?" asked Griphook.
"Did the client asked to be notified in case of any destruction of her property?" asked Ragnok.
"No sir. In fact, I still remember what she told us: She doesn't want any mail from filthy half breed Goblin scums." said Griphook with a toothy grin.
"Then we shall respect the client's wish." said Ragnok, returning the toothy grin.
Sirius Black couldn't believe his eyes.
The living room of the Grimmauld place was clean. It was no longer dusty or old or grim. In the middle of the living room, his house elf Kreacher was cleaning. Surprisingly, the elf looked… happy.
"Are you cleaning?" asked Sirius incredulously.
Kreacher stopped cleaning and looked at Sirius and nodded. "Yes Master Sirius."
Sirius's eyes widened. Kreacher never called him Master Sirius. It was always "Mudblood loving Master Sirus who broke poor mistress's heart."
"What did you just call me?" said Sirius.
"Master Sirius." said Kreacher.
"Ok, what are you trying to pull?" demanded Sirius. "You've never been this happy in your entire life. Spill."
"It has been done. It's gone." said Kreacher.
"What's gone? What are you talking about?" asked Sirius.
"The Locket. Master Regulus's locket." said Kreacher.
Sirius frowned. He expected Kreacher to be bawling his eyes out over any missing object from the house. Also, a locket? As far as he knew, his brother never owned a locket.
"Explain yourself. What locket?" said Sirius.
"Kreacher can't tell it to Master Sirius. Master Regulus ordered Kreacher to never tell any Black about it." said Kreacher.
Sirius frowned and went to the fireplace and called someone. Soon, James arrived through the floo.
"Alright Kreacher. He's not a Black. So explain right now what you meant by the locket."
Kreacher hesitated and then he opened his mouth. How the Dark lord used him to hide his locket, how Master Regulus asked him to take him to the same place and help him switch the locket with a fake one, how Master Regulus lost his life, and how Kreacher has been trying to destroy it to no avail.
"B-But I don't understand. Why would Regulus sacrifice his life for a locket? What's so special about that locket?'" said Sirius.
"Kreacher doesn't know. But Master Regulus told Kreacher that it would be a key to bringing down the Dark Lord." answered Kreacher, wiping tear off his own eyes.
Sirius had tears in his eyes. His brother didn't ran off and died as a coward. He died as a hero. James just gently patted Sirius on his back to comfort him.
"You said it was destroyed. How was it destroyed?" asked Sirius.
"Kreacher doesn't know. When Kreacher checked on it this morning, it was just destroyed like it exploded. Kreacher doesn't know what destroyed the locket." said Kreacher.
Sirius and James looked at each other.
"Wait. Did you say Regulus said that the locket will be a key to bring down Voldemort?" asked James.
Kreacher shuddered at the name Voldemort and nodded.
"Sirius. What if, what if that locket was a Horcrux? Your brother somehow figured out Voldemort created Horcrux and decided destroy them." said James.
"That explains why it will be a key to bring down Voldemort and why Kreacher has been unable to destroy it all these years." said Sirius snapping his fingers. "But there is one thing I'm still not sure. Kreacher said he doesn't know how the locket got destroyed. How did the locket get destroyed and by who?"
James scratched his head and said "Maybe a mutant?"
"Mutant?"
"That day when Lily and I took Professor Slughorn to Professor Xavier, he looked like he had some sort of plan with the Horcrux. Maybe there's a Mutant somewhere capable of destroying objects from a far away distance and Professor Xavier asked for his or her help." said James.
"I guess you're right… After all, Mutants have all kinds of unique powers." said Sirius. "Ok, Kreacher. Don't tell this to anyone without my permission. Don't even bring up the locket unless I say otherwise. Ok?"
"Of course Master Sirius." said Kreacher.
"Umm, and Kreacher? Thanks. You know, for telling me about Regulus." said Sirius, saying something kind to the old elf for the first time.
"Kreacher lives to serve the Black family." said Kreacher and for the first time, he bowed to Sirius.
Rookwood swore to himself. The Dark Lord had ordered him to feed Nagini. It was normally Pettigrew's job, but Pettigrew was out as a rat to gather information. He was one of the high ranking Death Eater! He should be out there killing mudbloods, not acting as a babysitter for a snake!
Rookwood entered Nagini's room and looked around. Odd. The snake always coiled itself up in the middle of the room and hiss menacingly at anyone who entered the room.
But the snake was nowhere to be seen. Nagini is a very big snake so there was no way on earth Rookwood not see her even if she was hiding.
Rookwood gulped nervously. The Dark Lord was not going to be happy about this at all.
Harry was walking around in London with couple of his friends and a supervisor (Logan). He had been training hard for weeks and he finally had a day off. He was going to meet up his wizard friends and have fun relaxing all day.
Unbeknownst to him, he was currently being watched by Moody, Hestia Jones, Kingsley Shacklebolt, Nymphadora Tonks and Mundungus Fletcher. They were all there under Dumbledore's order to bring Harry back at all costs, even if it meant kidnapping him. Everyone except Mundungus were reluctant to do the job. They were aurors after all.
"There he is. What do we now?" asked Tonks.
"Nothing. We keep our distance and observe, but we do not just go and take him." said Moody.
"No disrespect to your leadership Moody but didn't Dumbledore order us to grab and take him as soon as we see him? This is the first time we saw him in weeks. This could be our only chance." said Hestia.
"Well then don't expect me to bail you out of Azkaban. If there's one thing Fudge and Scrimgeour has in common it's that they both hate Dumbledore and his people. If that boy decides to press charge on you, you'll be toasted." snapped Moody. "Besides, let's say we did drag him to the headquarters. What then? Is that going to change his opinion of Dumbledore?"
"Probably not. He already has very low opinion about Professor Dumbledore. He does have some respect for us but if we take him, he'll never trust us again." said Tonks.
"Precisely. He already told Dumbledore how he feels about him after Dumbledore treated him like a scum for years. He's reaping what he sow not that he knows Harry is the one who can defeat You-Know-Who." said Moody.
"I wasn't going on planning to go through with his order anyway. I may have have broke the law by joining Dumbledore's vigilante group, but kidnapping someone is where I draw the line. I joined the order to do the right thing." said Kingsley in deep voice.
"Same here. I didn't go through Auror Academy for three grueling years just so I can end up in prison for kidnapping." said Tonks.
"I'm not comfortable with this either but what do we do? Professor Dumbledore's orders were quite clear: bring Harry Potter at all cost." said Hestia.
"We do nothing Jones. I'm in charge here and what I say goes. And I say we keep our distance and observe. I don't want that boy to be on my bad side just because Albus is a sore loser who betted on the wrong horse for years. I said this again and again, that boy has absolutely no reason to trust Dumbledore." said Moody.
"But I did hope that since they had a common enemy, he would be willing to put his differences aside and work with Professor Dumbledore." said Hestia.
"Oh, don't pretend to be so naive Jones. Think in boy's shoes. Do you think you'll be able to work with Dumbledore?" said Moody. Hestia shook her head. "I thought so. We keep our distance and observe only. Is that clear?"
But all he heard was three yeses instead of four. Mundungus was gone.
"Where the hell is that worm?" snarled Moody.
"Umm.. Mad Eye?" said Tonks who pointed at Mundungus, who was sneaking up to Harry.
"This isn't going to end well." muttered Kingsley.
"Damn it! This is why I didn't want to bring that idiot along! But no, Albus wouldn't listen as usual." snarled Moody.
"We need to stop him!" said Hestia but little did they know, there was no need for them to move.
Mundungus Fletcher had a confident smirk on his face as he reached into his pocket to slip the portkey that would take the boy to head quarters. He could almost see the bags of galleon Dumbledore promised him. But before he could slip in the portkey, Harry immediately grabbed his arm and twisted it. Then he hit him in the face with his elbow, knocking him out.
Kingsley, Tonks and Hestia all looked shocked while Moody didn't. He was just shaking his head at Mundungus' stupidity.
"I take it you four know this trash?" asked Harry.
"Unfortunately we do lad. Mundungus Fletcher. Dumbledore's underworld contact." said Moody.
"That old coot hires criminals now? The more I know about him, the lower he gets." said Logan.
"We're sorry Mr Potter. We were only watching you so you won't get attacked by Death Eaters. But it looks like you already have people who can defend you." said Tonks.
"We invested shit lot of time so they won't get his ass handed by bugs like this. I would have been sorely disappointed if he was actually taken." snorted Logan.
"We will just take him and be on our way." said Moody. "Get up you worm." Moody roughly grabbed Mundungus by his collar.
"Professor Dumbledore is not going to be happy about this." said Hestia shaking her head.
"Well Dumbledore can suck it." snapped Moody.
Later in the evening, just like they predicted, Dumbledore was not happy about the situation.
"This is the first sighting of him we had in weeks and you didn't bother to bring him in? Why didn't you arrest him and bring him to the headquarter for beating up poor Mundungus?" shouted Dumbledore.
"Do you hear yourself? Since when was self defense a crime? Also, forget the fact that he was with his friends, he was in a muggle populated area. Drawing the muggle's attention can get us in trouble with the ministry for breaking the statue of secrecy! Also, these three as an auror could have possibly lost their job if they went on with your order to kidnap an innocent person!" growled Moody. "This was also the precise reason I didn't want to bring Fletcher in this mission. That worm doesn't think or listen to me and will do anything to get himself a quick galleon."
"He's right. Fletcher ignored Moody's orders to keep distance. He didn't even stop to consider how he was going to explain to the muggles if a person suddenly disappeared in broad daylight." said Kingsley.
"Fletcher got what he deserved. Since when did the member of the "Light side" go around attempting to kidnap people? He's lucky it just ended with him getting hit in the face." snorted Sirius.
"It's just as I feared. Those mutants have corrupted his mind. He needs to be removed immediately and be set on the right path by me." said Dumbledore.
"Oh no you don't. Stop saying "Mutants corrupted his mind". If there was one good thing that happened because James and I trusted you is that Harry was raised by Professor Xavier and his people, who raised him to be a strong and noble man. In fact, we were the ones who corrupted Aiden's mind to be a spoiled boy so wrapped up by the Boy-Who-Lived nonsense. For the last five years, you blatantly showed everyone that you treat Aiden like he's a the perfect child while treating Harry as if he belongs in Azkaban. Before telling us to kidnap Harry, why don't you try to get us to understand why Harry should trust you?" said Lily angrily.
"That's not the point! Harry needs to learn to forgive and give second chance to people for redemption so they could see error in their ways! He was raised by wrong sorts of people and he needs to be removed! I will go to the ministry and file a report on him for beating up Mundungus." said Dumbledore.
"Good luck with that. You do know that Mundungus is a wanted man for theft and fraud don't you? The moment you report that incident, aurors are going to question you on where Mundungus is. If you refuse to tell them, they'll arrest you for harboring a criminal. Also, how will you explain when Mundungus tells them that you ordered him to kidnap someone? You don't want to get arrested or lose your only contact in the underworld do you?" said James.
Dumbledore seethed. Deep down, he knew everyone in the room was right. But he didn't want to admit it. Why couldn't they just do as he say? Why couldn't they just kidnap the damn brat?
What he didn't know was that because of today's incident, many started to doubt him and wonder if he was the same great wizard they always thought he was.
Once again, the red Hogwarts express was heading towards Hogwarts in full speed.
In the compartment was the usual crew: Harry, Ginny, Hermione, Luna and Neville. But they were joined by some X-Mage members.
"I read the news. Sorry about your aunt Susan. My deepest condolences." said Harry.
"Thanks. It mean a lot." said Susan Bones. "I came here to ask you a question. Are we continuing the X Mage meeting this year?"
"Absolutely. This is a year we will be needing it more than any other time. With Voldemort officially announcing his return, even an idiot can tell that there's going to be a war. This year, we won't have to be so secretive. I plan on telling the Professors about it to make it official. Of course, the X-Men have agreed to help us out and even Mad Eye Moody decided to help us." said Harry.
Everyone chattered excitedly. Not only were they going to get training from the X-Men, they were also going to get a training from one of legendary auror as well!
"How on earth did you get Moody help us train?" asked Ron.
"Moody was quite impressed when he heard that we trained ourselves during toad's regime." said Harry. "And don't tell this to anyone but Moody is currently not very crazy about Dumbledore."
"He's not the only one." snorted Ginny. "Mom and dad used to treat him like he was the new Merlin. Now, it's pretty much forbidden to talk about him at Burrow."
"Moody thinks the existence of our group will probably piss Dumbledore off. He's more than willing to help us as long as I give him the memory of Dumbledore's reaction to his group." sniggered Harry.
"Speaking of not telling anyone about this, I think we need to up the security measure." said Hermione.
"I agree. Last year showed us what happens when a person decides to tattle on our group." said Neville.
"I think I might be able to add couple more security charms on the sign up sheet." said Hermione.
Then, the door to the compartment slid open, revealing Malfoy, Crabbe and Goyle.
"I was starting to wonder when he'll make his annual visit." said Harry dryly.
"Potter-" started Malfoy angrily but Harry held his hand out.
"Stop. Let me guess. You'll pay for what those filthy mutants did to my father, Voldemort will kill you all, you are all mudbloods and half breeds. Does that sum up what you were about to say?" said Harry.
Malfoy just made an angry sputtering noise and reached for his wand. As quick as a flash, everyone in the compartment whipped out their wands and pointed at the Slytherin trio.
"You're outnumbered here. Leave now." snarled Ginny.
For once, Malfoy made a wise decision and put away his wand. He looked at the X-Mage's and sneered.
"I'll watch yourself if I were you Potter. You and your mudblood and mutant friends will all be killed by the Dark Lord." spat Malfoy.
"You've been saying that for the past five years. What's going to be different this year?" scoffed Harry.
"Oh, it'll be different this year. Mark my words." said Malfoy coldly. And he slammed the compartment door.
"What do you think he meant when he said it'll be different this year?" asked Colin.
"Maybe he's got Wrackspurts instead of Nargles on his head." said Luna.
"Or worse. Maybe he joined Voldemort." said Harry.
"That's possible. Malfoy is the type that would run off and become a Death Eater in the fastest opportunity." said Ron darkly.
"There's a rumor that there are students who joined Voldemort." said Neville. "There are those who already bear the mark."
"Well, then they chose their sides." said Ginny.
The compartment door opened again, this time revealing Cho Chang and Marietta Edgecombe. Marietta was covering her face.
"Yes?" said Harry. "If you are here about her, my answer is same as last year. No."
"But-" said Cho but Harry cut her off.
"But nothing. I do not know how to remove that charm because I'm not the one who put the security charm. Hermione is the one who put the charm so if you want to beg, beg to her. Plus, even if I had the power to remove the charm, I would refuse the same." said Harry.
"She only did it because she was afraid for her mother! Her mother works at the ministry and-"
"Ron and Ginny's father works at the ministry and so does family of many members of our group. I didn't see them running to the ministry hag." snapped Harry.
"I'm with Harry. No one forced her to be in our group. We didn't point a wand at her and demanded that she sign up. She could have chosen to leave in our first meeting and she didn't." said Ginny.
"Also, when she was tattling on us, she knew that if Umbridge caught us, we'll all be expelled and have our wands snapped. She knowingly tried to get us expelled. I say she got what she deserved." said Ernie.
Seeing that there was no support for them in the compartment, Cho sighed and closed the door.
"Why is she sticking up for her anyway? She would have been expelled as well if Umbridge caught us." said Hermione.
"Probably a twisted sense of loyalty." muttered Neville.
"HUFFLEPUFF!" announced the sorting hat to the last first year.
Dumbledore got up from his seat. "Welcome! Welcome to another year. I would like to say few words before we begin the feast. First, I would like you to welcome back Professor Alastor Moody, who will be the new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher.
There were polite applause as Moody nodded.
"Now, as you know, the ministry has declared the return of Voldemort. Alert the professors immediately if you see anyone suspicious. That is all." said Dumbledore.
The feast began, but the mood was visibly subdued compared to last year.
Harry was munching on his food when he heard "Mr Potter." It was Professor McGonagall.
"Hello Professor McGonagall. What can I do for you?" asked Harry.
"The headmaster." said Professor McGonagall. Based on the way she said the word, it was clear that she didn't have any respect for the men. "Requests that you come to his office after dinner."
"Do I have to go?" complained Harry.
"Unfortunately, yes." said Professor McGonagall looking at Harry with sympathy. "If you don't show up, he'll probably bug you every single day until you do."
"Well that just ruined by appetite." sighed Harry, wiping his mouth.
"Enter!"
Harry dragged his feet into Dumbledore's office.
"Harry my boy! Why don't you have a seat?" said Dumbledore.
"There's one thing I want to ask you. How the heck did you get back here?" said Harry. "You were a wanted man for soliciting the use of love potion on minor. How are you back here?"
"My boy, I have no idea what you're talking about." said Dumbledore.
"Don't call me "my boy" or play dumb. You were the one who ordered Aiden Potter to drug Ginny to go out with him." snapped Harry.
"And do you have a proof?" said Dumbledore.
"Aiden Potter confessed that you gave him the love potion to drug Ginny. There is a memory of the confession." said Harry.
"Aiden Potter was known to blame everyone but himself for his fault. He probably lied to get himself out of trouble." said Dumbledore.
"That's a lie and you know it." said Harry angrily.
"Really? Who can prove it? Aiden Potter is dead so Veritaserum is no use on him. And there is no concrete evidence that I am related to that incident, so you won't be able to use Veritaserum without my consent." said Dumbledore smugly.
"So that's how he got off the hook." thought Harry angrily. "He really is a manipulative disgusting man. This makes it even more unbearable to be in a same room with him."
"Ok, then I would like to ask you why I am here. I don't think I did anything that will cause me to come to the Headmaster's office on the first day of school." said Harry.
"I would like to discuss your schedule for this year." said Dumbledore.
"My schedule? What about it?"
"To be more specific, I'm talking about your training."
"Training?" said Harry incredulously.
"Yes. Your training to prepare you against Voldemort." said Dumbledore. "You'll need to be in my office everyday-"
"Hold on. Don't you remember that I told you few months ago that I don't need training from you? I already got trained by some of the best fighters in the world." said Harry.
"It is for the greater good-"
"It is for the greater good of your continued existence that you leave me the hell alone." snapped Harry. "Also, as I said before, I have no reason whatsoever to trust you. You treated me like a trash for the past five years and I'm suppose to just ignore that and take trainings from you? You made it very clear from the beginning that we are not on the same side. Why should I take training from you?"
"You'll come to my office everyday or I'll put you in a detention!" said Dumbledore, starting to lose his patience.
"For what? Last time I checked the school rules, it is the student's right to refuse any unneeded extra lessons."
"I am the headmaster of Hogwarts and I order you to take trainings-"
"You are the headmaster, not a king. You can't order me to something that ridiculous. If this is all, I'll be making myself out." said Harry.
"I haven't dismissed you Mr Potter!" shouted Dumbledore. "I am Albus Dumbledore, order of Merlin first class, leader of the light and the greatest wizard that ever lived! You will do as I say!"
"You can ask a million times and my answer will always be same. NO. And I'll be dismissing myself." said Harry.
"Come back here!" shouted Dumbledore.
"Nope. I'm done wasting my time." said Harry as he made his way over to the door. "Oh, and one more thing. I read a somewhere that said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different result. I'm no expert but I suggest you have a trip to the St Mungos."
When Harry closed the door, he heard a rage filled yell and a sound of something being blown apart.
As Harry came down the stairs, he heard the familiar clunking from wooden feet.
"Back from Dumbledore laddie? How did it go?" asked Moody.
"Amazingly. In fact, we agreed to go for an ice cream next weekend." said Harry sarcastically.
"That man just doesn't understand what no means." said Moody shaking his head.
"Which is why I think Dumbledore will harass me again in the future to get me to get "training" from me." sighed Harry.
"Probably not. You see, anytime that happens, you'll be in detention with me or Lily." said Moody. "Dumbledore won't be able to have a moment alone with you."
"Thanks Mad Eye." said Harry.
"It's nothing lad. One of the reason I agreed to work here again is because Xavier asked me to keep Dumbledore away from you as much as possible." said Moody.
"What I don't understand is why Dumbledore isn't behind bars." said Harry angrily.
"With Aiden Potter dead, many sees him as their beacon of hope. There are those out there who still worships the ground he walks on. Who do you think is willing arrest him? Scrimgeour is not a fan of Dumbledore but Dumbledore covered his tracks well. He just outright claimed that the evidence was fabricated." said Moody shaking his head.
"What about Mr and Mrs Potter? Are they planning on doing something to Dumbledore?" asked Harry.
"Not yet. For one thing, as I said before, no one is willing to prosecute Dumbledore. Plus, they can't prove that Dumbledore didn't take Aiden to the Ministry. Dumbledore will probably claim that AIden just followed him. As you know, we can't ask Aiden about the truth." said Moody. "Also, they decided they should be focusing on one enemy right now. It's very risky to fight two battle at one time. But as soon as one's gone, they'll start thinking about the next move."
"I see." said Harry. When the duo turned to the corner of the corridor, they were confronted by Snape.
"Out of bed Potter? That'll be a detention and-" sneered Snape but Moody cut him off.
"Are you blind Snape? He's with me. I'm taking him back to his dorm." snapped Moody.
Snape gave the duo a dirty look and walked away.
"Thank goodness I don't have to face him this year." muttered Harry.
"He's another reason I agreed to take this job. Dumbledore may trust him but I don't. I'm going to keep an eye on him. He's been providing us with less and less information." growled Moody.
New year in Hogwarts was… ok.
There were ups: no more dealing with Snape in class, a good defense teacher and best of all, being with his girlfriend.
There were downs: Dumbledore (obviously) and the Slytherin students were acting more suspicious than usual.
Many Slytherins were openly hostile to members of the other house. Some even tried to hex or assault small first years. Harry asked Ginny, Hermione, Neville and Luna to keep an eye on the Slytherins and they were able to stop the Slytherin students from doing anything serious.
"It's like they don't even care anymore." said Ginny. "They just hex anyone who gets in their way."
"I advised the first years to never go anywhere alone and to always be accompanied by at least two people. I told them to run to the prefects if anyone harasses them." said Neville.
"All seventh years Slytherins have been bullying first years. Do you know who else?" asked Harry.
"I believe some fifth years are harassing little ones." said Luna. "And all the sixth year except one are known to go around in groups and hex others."
"Who's the one person who doesn't join them?" asked Ginny.
"Malfoy. He surprisingly haven't attacked anyone." said Luna.
"I expected someone like him to be the leader of the sixth year. Wonder what changed?" said Hermione.
"Nothing. I bet he is on some sort of special mission given by Voldemort." said Harry. "I find him disappearing everyday into the same spot. It's somewhere near the room of requirements. Or it could be the room of requirements. But I don't know because I tried to get the room to show me to the room with Malfoy and it did nothing."
"I wouldn't be surprised if Voldemort taught him a spell to cover up his track." muttered Ginny. "I mean, if I were him or Malfoy, I wouldn't want anyone to find out the secret plan."
"We'll keep an eye on him as well Harry. By the way, don't we have X-Mage meeting today?" said Hermione. The group got Moody's sponsoring and McGonagall allowed it to be an official Hogwarts club. But Harry asked her not to make any kind of announcements, as they couldn't risk any untrustworthy people in the group.
"Yep. We're going to practice Patronus charm again. It's a very important charm." said Harry.
Months passed. Dumbledore constantly tried to put him in a detention with him but Lily and Moody quickly beat him to the chase and put Harry in "detention" with them.
Harry was still nowhere close to finding out what Malfoy was doing but he didn't give up.
Harry was walking in front of the room of requirements, thinking. What could Malfoy be doing inside? Then, he felt a headache.
"Draco reported that the work his half done my lord." said Narcissa Malfoy.
"Tell him to speed up his work. I am losing my patience." said Voldemort coldly.
"I will send your message immediately my lord." said Narcissa.
"Wormtail." hissed Voldemort.
"Y-Yes my lord?" trembled Pettigrew.
"Bring me Nagini. I haven't seen her for a long time." said Voldemort.
"B-But my lord. Nagini is-"
"Do not say she is out hunting again." said Voldemort coldly. "Are you telling me Nagini has been out hunting for month and happens to go out the same time I wish to see her? Bring her to me or I'll make you bring her to me."
"M-My lord. Nagini is… she's missing." stammered Pettigrew.
"What?" shouted Voldemort. "What are you talking about?"
"M-My lord. Nagini has been missing for a some time. I thought she had gone out hunting because that's what Rookwood told me when he passed over Nagini care to me." said Pettigrew.
"CRUCIO!" Pettigrew screamed loudly and writhed on the ground. Voldemort lifted the curse, only for him to use cruciatus again and again. By the time Voldemort was finished, Pettigrew was on the verge of losing his mind.
"Find her at once! If you fail to find her, next punishment will be death!" said Voldemort.
"Rookwood." said Voldemort. "You were in charge of taking care of the snake while Wormtail was gone. Was she with you at the time?"
"O-Of course my lord." lied Rookwood.
"CRUCIO!" said Voldemort and same thing happened to Rookwood. "Do not lie to me Rookwood. I can tell when people are lying."
"My lord! Please forgive me! I didn't mean to-"
"I do not need your excuses! AVADA KEDAVRA!" shouted Voldemort and a green light came out of his wand and hit Rookwood, ending his life.
"Everyone is to find Nagini until I give separate orders! FIND NAGINI AT ONCE!" shouted Voldemort.
A/N: Thanks for reading! Feel free to leave any questions and comments!
