Q: Huh I thought the previous chapter was the last one for this story. Glad I was wrong though please don't do a "no more death eaters"
A: I'll never do something like that. Deus ex machina will be too boring. No more Scarlet Witch in this story. (Or at least I plan on keeping it this way)
Q: "For the first five years" - don't you mean last five years?
A: You're right. How did I miss that?
Q: Hey RJ I know you like Harry/Ginny pairing so much I found a story you might like Harry Potter and the Gemini curse by ghost-dragon42 and Harry Potter And lightning curse by just bored 21 if you have the time I will check them out thank you. by the way doing good.
A: Thanks for your support. I'll definitely check them out.
Q: 1) Did Wanda destroy Riddle's Horcruxes or all (including those that might still be laying around from previous dark lords)? If so, are there any ramifications that will appear in this story (such as an artifact from the Louvre being destroyed?). 2) Since the Gaunt Ring is destroyed, does that mean the Resurrection Stone is destroyed? If so, is that creating an imbalance in the Hallows leading to them either being supercharged or losing strength? Is the Hallows Death the same as Thanos' Lady Death? What does Master of Death en-tale in this universe, if anything?
A: All the Horcruxes are destroyed, meaning all of Riddle's horcruxes (Diadem, cup, Nagini etc) are destroyed. There weren't any other Horcruxes out there. Only Dark Lords in HP universe who created Horcrux are Herpo the Foul and Voldemort. Herpo the Foul was the first to create Horcrux and that was destroyed way before the beginning of the Harry's birth. That was how the method to destroy Horcrux was recorded. Keep in mind that creating a Horcrux is considered as a supreme evil in HP universe so no other Dark Lords attempted it. Yes, the resurrection stone is destroyed. And no, it doesn't mean any of what you said. The Hallows were just special objects the real Peverell brothers created. At their time, they were considered to be such a great wizard to the points people begin to call them "wizards who conquered death", henc the story about them was created (tale of Three brothers). Death is just death: kick the bucket. I haven't really consider lady death into account when I was writing.
Q: Is curious how Dumbledore is put as bad with 'The Greater Good' when Professor X also have his times for 'The Greater Good' that are as bad or even worse that Dumbledore.
A: True. But I based my Professor X mostly on Patrick Stewart's version, who is much more kind and less manipulative then the comics counterpart.
Thank you all for your compliments! Shout outs to those who offered me fabulous suggestions!
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Chapter 52: Leading up to the battle
"Dumbledore is losing it." said Moody gruffly. Everyone in the room could not agree more. Dumbledore has asked, no demanded that the order members bring Harry Potter to him from platform 9 and ¾ when he boarded the Hogwarts express. The order members tried to protest: taking someone in broad daylight would certainly cause a scene, they were not comfortable with taking someone against their will. But no amount of reasoning could convince Dumbledore.
"Could not have described any better." said James. "That's all he's been bugging everyone about for a week. He stopped all other order activity just to focus on kidnapping Harry. He needs some real waking up."
"He's going to have order members stationed all over the platform." said Lily. "It's going to be impossible for Harry to board the express without any of the order members noticing him."
"So much for so called leader of the light." muttered Scott. "We'll have to figure out a way to get pass them."
"I have an idea." said Professor Xavier. Fawkes flew in and landed next to Professor Xavier. "And I also have a way to give Dumbledore exactly what he wants."
Winter holiday ended and students begin to get on the Hogwarts express. Harry's friends were waiting for him in their compartment. Soon, Harry came running into the compartment.
"Hey Harry-" said Neville but Harry just shoved a piece of paper in his hand.
"What's this?" asked Neville. But Harry didn't get to answer because two order members approached him.
"Mr Potter? I'm going to have to ask you to come with us." said Sturgis Podmore.
To their surprise, Harry nodded.
"Wait! Where are you taking him!" demanded Ginny.
"Professor Dumbledore requested he see Mr Potter immediately." said Hestia Jones.
"Harry, are you seriously just going to go?" asked Hermione incredulously.
Harry nodded again. Ginny, Neville, Hermione and Luna stood up to stop the order members from taking Harry away but Harry held his hand up and shook his head. He then motioned the order members to leave the Hogwarts express.
Harry's friends sat in the compartment surprised, until Luna broke the silence.
"What does the paper say Neville?" asked Luna.
Neville unrolled the paper and read it out loud. "I'll be seeing you guys later. Make sure you look at Dumbledore's face at the feast."
Dumbledore was almost jumping with glee. Sturgis had reported that Harry agreed to come with them. Finally! Harry saw the light and decided to join him. He was too excited to notice that James and Lily were surprisingly quiet about this and Mad-eye was smirking.
Harry entered the room with the order members.
"Ah, Harry my boy. It's so great that you finally saw the light and decided to come to me. Now-" said Dumbledore but Harry held his hand up.
He checked his watch and went silent for few minutes. Then he took out a piece of paper and handed it over to Dumbledore.
"What is this?" asked Dumbledore. Harry just shrugged.
Dumbledore unrolled the paper and read what it said.
Please take this as a token of my feeling towards you. Signed Harry Potter.
A very large middle finger was drawn on the paper.
"What is the meaning of this Harry?" demanded Dumbledore. He was just in time to see Harry change into someone else.
"I'm actually not Harry. I think we met each other few years ago." said "Harry". "I'm Harry's friend, Jamie Madrox."
Jamie's clone disappeared back to his original self, but not before seeing Dumbledore scream in anger and blast a nearby chair.
"MR POTTER!" roared Dumbledore as he came inside the Great Hall. Harry had arrived much earlier then his friends because he came to Hogwarts via Phoenix flame travel.
"Yes? What can I do for you?" said Harry.
"How-how dare you do this!" shouted Dumbledore.
"Do what?" asked Harry calmly.
"DO WHAT? You know better then anyone what I mean!" shouted Dumbledore.
"Actually, I don't. You see, I can't read mind. So you'll have to explain yourself." said Harry.
"YOU KNOW WELL WHAT I AM TALKING ABOUT! HOW DARE YOU, A MERE BOY REFUSE TO FOLLOW ORDERS OF-" Dumbledore was cut off by Professor McGonagall and Flitwick.
"Albus Dumbledore, what on earth are you doing screaming your lungs off and causing a scene like this in front of students? Have you got no shame?" demanded McGonagall.
"He refused to follow my order!"
"Mr Potter did nothing wrong. Mr Potter came here separately because his family requested him to do so. And all he did so far was wait for his friends in the great hall. The faculty were watching Mr Potter and he did nothing wrong." said Professor Flitwick firmly. "And what do you mean by order? Have you tried to call Mr Potter for another unnecessary meeting? How many times do I have to tell you that Mr Potter gets good grades and never had behavior problem and therefore does not need a so called meeting with you?"
Dumbledore opened his mouth and closed it again when he realized the entire student body was staring at him and no one was on his side. He forced himself to his seat at the table, seething with rage.
"So this is what you meant by look at his face. It was rather funny." commented Luna.
Dumbledore paced around in his office, thinking. And for the first time in many years, he actually came up with a rational decision.
It was abundantly clear that Harry Potter was not going to cooperate with him any time soon. So Dumbledore decided to switch some of his plans. Original plan was to get Harry Potter to his side, learn about Voldemort's past, get Horace Slughorn to give more information on Horcrux, go on a Horcrux hunt and defeat Voldemort.
But Harry Potter was not cooperating and Slughorn was missing. He had interrogated James and Lily but all they told him was that the last time they saw him was at Aiden's funeral. By this point, Slughorn probably had ran off to a foreign country.
So Dumbledore decided to start with hunting down Horcruxes. Severus notified him that Voldemort's forces were growing. Based on that, Dumbledore deduced that there was certainly a possibility that Voldemort might start a large scale attack. It would make his job whole lot easier if the Horcruxes were all gone. It would be even better if Voldemort and Harry killed each other during confrontation. After all, Harry himself had a soul of Dark Lord inside him. He needs to die as well for the perfect world.
"I will start hunting down the Horcrux first then deal with those two." thought Dumbledore. And he begin to think of various locations the Horcrux could be hidden.
"I warned what will happen if you fools failed to find Nagini." hissed Voldemort.
"Please forgive me my lord." begged Pettigrew. "We've been looking everywhere but we couldn't find her."
"Crucio!" hissed Voldemort and the victim of that day screamed and writhed on the ground. "Get out of my sight at once!" All the Death Eaters begin to scramble out, until Voldemort stopped Snape.
"Severus." said Voldemort. "You haven't got any luck finding Nagini as well."
"Please accept my apology my lord. Dumbledore doesn't seem to be behind it as he never mentioned anything about Nagini. But he has been leaving Hogwarts often lately and even went out for couple of days." said Snape.
"I see… Is Draco finished with his work?"
"He is almost done my lord, but he said he will need about two more weeks to complete the task." said Snape.
"Tell him he has more one week."
"I'll deliver the message my lord." said Snape and he left the room as well.
It was odd. Not only has his followers failed to find Nagini, he couldn't posses her. This has never happened before.
For the first time, Voldemort felt a chill down his spine. He had just imagined the worst possible scenario: what if somebody found out that Nagini was actually a Horcrux and destroyed her?
But Voldemort shook that idea out of his head. It was impossible. For one thing, for someone to kill Nagini, they must have came into the manor. But the security spell of the manor didn't allow any intruders. He had looked into the minds of all of his followers so it wasn't them who killed Nagini.
The biggest possibility was that Dumbledore somehow found out about his Horcrux and destroyed Nagini. But as Severus said, Dumbledore hasn't said anything about Nagini. But he did say he's been missing from Hogwarts lately. He was confident that nobody knew about his Horcruxes yet. But just in case…
"Bellatrix." he called. And Bellatrix Lestrange entered the room.
"You have summoned me my lord?"
"Go to Gringotts and bring me the object I entrusted with you."
"Certainly my lord." said Bellatrix.
As soon as the vision ended, Harry opened his computer and called Professor Xavier.
"It won't be so long until Voldemort founds out that his Horcruxes are destroyed." explained Harry.
"So we'll have to be on guard. I'll convey that message to Lily as well." said Professor Xavier.
It was deep in the night where most would be sleeping. All the shops in Diagon Alley had closed except for Gringotts, for Gringotts operated 24/7. Customers almost never came to Gringotts at this time of the day but today was an exception. A woman wearing a hooded robe approached the teller.
"Yes?" said the teller without looking up.
Bellatrix threw her key at the table and said in a disgusted voice "Take me to my vault Goblin."
The teller glanced at the key and muttered to himself. "The Lestrange vault."
"Certainly. Griphook! Take her to the lestrange vault." said the teller, grinning widely.
Griphook came and he was also grinning. "What are you laughing at goblin?" snarled Bellatrix.
"Nothing in particular. Shall we proceed to your vault?" said Griphook.
After a long ride in the cart, Bellatrix arrived at her vault. Griphook opened it and stepped aside to let Bellatrix enter.
Bellatrix begin to search around for the cup. But to her surprise, she couldn't find it. She started to be frantic and begin to dig through golds and goods. She even tried the summoning charm but that failed too.
"Goblin!" shouted Bellatrix as she came out of her vault.
"Yes?" said Griphook.
"The cup I had put in my vault is missing. Where is it?" she demanded.
"By cup, are you referring to the cup with a badger engraved on it?" asked Griphook.
"Of course I'm talking about that cup you worthless Goblin! Tell me where it is right now!" shouted Bellatrix.
"That object was found within the vault, destroyed without any trace of it left. On behalf of Gringotts, I offer my condolences." said Griphook despite clearly not looking sorry. "Unfortunately, because it was not a case of break in or our employees fault, we can offer no compensation. Gringotts concluded that it is likely that the dark nature of the object destroyed itself."
"WHAT! WHY DIDN'T YOU INFORM ME ANY OF THIS YOU DISGUSTING HALF BREED!" screeched Bellatrix.
"If I recall, your exact words were "I don't want any mails from filthy half breed goblin scums". We at Gringotts respect our client's wish." said Griphook grinning.
"You…" hissed Bellatrix and she whipped out her wand. Right on cue, about dozen Goblins guards rushed in and pointed their spears at her.
"Unfortunately, I'm going to have to ask you to leave now. Gringotts bids you good day." said Griphook.
"Crucio!" screamed Voldemort. Voldemort had no problem using cruciatus curse on his followers but he never really needed to use the spell on Bellatrix, for she was both his most loyal and useful servant.
But today was different. When Bellatrix reported that the cup in her vault was found destroyed, Voldemort snapped and hurled the torture curse at her.
"Yaxley! Severus! Greyback!" hissed Voldemort and they immediately rushed in and bowed.
"Remove her from my sight. And Yaxley? Inform our spies within the ministry to carry out the plan immediately. Greyback gather all the dark creature that allied with us. Severus, did you tell me Dumbledore was currently away?"
"Yes my lord. He said he had an urgent business to take care somewhere far away and won't be back for at least a month. It has been about a week now." answered Snape.
"Then this is the perfect time. From now on, drop everything you are doing and assist Draco in finishing the task. I expect the task to be completed before the week ends so there won't be any problem for us when we attack Hogwarts. Is that clear Severus?" hissed Voldemort.
"Of course my lord." said Severus, kissing the hem of Voldemort's robe.
Harry snapped out of his vision and wiped his face. "He's coming to Hogwarts. He's going to gather every single one of his force and come. " said Harry.
A/N: Thanks for reading! Feel free to leave any questions and comments! I apologize for updating so late. I was quite busy with so many things going on with my life.
The next chapter will be the final battle against Voldemort!
