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A pale, dark hooded figure apparated in the middle of a wide, open street of a small muggle town. The infamous birthplace of Godric Gryffindor, Godric's Hollow. A place where magical and muggle folk lived in harmony. A place that brought a feeling of disgust to his cold, black heart. The figure glared his dark, red eyes at the muggle children. Bumbling, and running around like a herd of hippogriffs. The muggle houses windows covered in paper spiders, witch cut outs, all the muggle trappings of a world they did not believe in. The laughter of the children and their parents going around from house to house asking for candy was enough to make him sick to his stomach. Striding down the dim lit street lost in thought when he bumped into a small blonde haired child. She was dressed as a little pumpkin. She greeted him with an apology for not watching where she was going. Normally when someone would get in his way he would kill them instantly. But he found it unnecessary. For his mission was to deal with another child, one far more important than this little one.
"Next time you should watch where you're going young lady." The figure said in a cold tone.
A crept of fear erupted in the young child. As she could see, based on his tone of voice. He was not someone to anger. Backing away slowly, the little girl rushed off in the opposite direction, wanting to find her mother. Sneering at the direction the girl ran in, he gave himself a little chuckle. He loved seeing the fear in the eyes of Muggles. Continuing down the nearly now fully lit part of the street. He was once again lost in thought of his mission.
His most trusted spy Severus informed him about a prophecy, about a child that would lead to his downfall. It was most shocking, but at the same time laughable. A child, a mere baby would have the power to destroy HIM!. He was Lord Voldemort! the greatest dark lord in century. He, who pushed the boundaries of magic farther than anyone had dared to go. But despite it being laughable to him. He sent out some of his most faithful followers to locate candidates. His faithful follower, Atreus Mortimer informed him of two candidates that fit the description. One was Neville Longbottom, born to Aurors Alice and Frank Longbottom. The other candidate was shocking to say the least. According to Atreus, the other candidate was Persephone Potter, daughter of Harry Potter and his daughter Delphini. Now he never knew his daughter married into the Potter family. A family that opposed him on more than one occasion. But hey he wasnt that much involved in his daughter's personal life. Since he was always plotting to take over the wizarding world. So how was he supposed to know. But still the very thought of his own granddaughter being the one to destroy him. That solidified his decision to, as much as it pained him kill his own kin. He soon came to the house as he noticed the fidelius charm failing. The information Pettigrew gave him was indeed correct. Gripping his wand tightly in his grip. He unlocked the front gate with a mere flick of his wand. The Potters had no idea what was coming for them.
Harry Potter sat in the living room, laying on the couch as he sighed. He was not only bored out of his mind, but also a bit agitated for being in a mere muggle cottage in a small obsucre village instead of the Potter Manor, which had every protection charms and wards available. But he trusted Dumbledore's judgement. The old man had never led him wrong before and was the one who set up his early apprenticeship. Pettigrew was their secret keeper, and a close friend of theirs. Originally they were going to make Sirius their secret keeper. But Sirius told them that he would be to obvious. So after much debate they chose to put Peter in charge of protecting his family's location. Speaking of family –
"Dada!" said a small voice.
Harry turned and smiled as he saw his beloved daughter taking a few steps slowly to the couch. He kneeled down on his knees with a proud smile. All the agitation that he had been previously feeling vanished as soon as his eyes fell on his little angel.
"Come on, Persephone. You can do it." He said encouraging his daughter to take the final steps.
Persephone smiled brightly as any one year baby would. Just as she reached her father, Harry grabbed her and spun her around, making her giggle excitedly.
"You want to fly on my broom with me?" Harry asked positioning her on his lap.
"Harry Salazar Potter! don't even think about it!" shouted a voice, entering the living room.
Quickly getting on to his feet he made his way towards Delphini Potter nee Riddle, and gave her a chaste peck on the lips. "Hey honey you rang?" He teasingly asked as he looked at her persephone safely tucked away in his arms.
"Don't you 'hey honey' me Potter, what the hell were you doing? thinking about taking my 'one' year old daughter out on a broom?" Delphini said glaring at Harry as she did so.
Harry sweated a bit after which he grinned and in a suave voice said "Well I had to get your attention my fair serpent, you have been busy this whole day and my poor self was getting lonely without you."
His grin grew wider when delphini blushed and looked away placing the plate on a table by the side. However before either of them could say anything the Floo flared up and from it came Dumbledores voice.
"Ah Harry are you there?"
Harry groaned at the interruption before handing Persephone into Delphini's eager hands. He then walked towards the floo and said "Im here Albus what can I do for you?"
"I was hoping that you would join me in my office for a quick chat, I have something that you would like to hear." Dumbledore said.
"Alright, I will be right there." Harry said as he nodded towards Delphini in goodbye before stepping through the floo and going to Hogwarts.
Delphini sighed in slight disappointment after which she went to the kitchen to prepare a milk bottle for Persephone. It didnt take long as Persephone was soon asleep in her mothers arms. Delphini then placed Persephone in her cot watching her as she peacefully slept. It was just a moment later that her instincts flared, making her turn around with her wand raised, a translucent blue shield shimmering in front of her just as the door burst out of its hinges and crashed against her shield.
The noise did wake Persephone up and she started crying, however this time Delphini did not turn back her eyes firmly set towards the figure standing among the rubble in front of her.
"Father." She greeted coolly watching as Voldermort casually entered the lounge.
"Daughter." He greeted with a crooked grin.
"What are you doing here?" she demanded keeping a tight grip on her wand even if she felt sweat beginning to form on her neck.
"Ah about that, you see there has been a prophecy relating to your daughter over there. She has been fated to be the one to kill me. Keeping that in mind I couldn't in good conscience let her live." Voldermort said with a shred of regret. In his eyes anyone who was a threat to him deserved to die, even if it was his own flesh and blood.
"And you are just going to kill your own granddaughter?! Just like that?!" Delphini growled out her silver eyes flashing.
"But of course, no one will stand in my way to glory, not even my own blood. Though I do not want to spill my own familys blood so needlessly, with that I want you to step aside, after killing her, I will leave. And since you are young I doubt getting another child won't be a problem for you." Voldermort said with a sneer.
"If you think I am going to abandon my child than you are wrong voldermort, I won't let you harm her." Delphini announced resolutely as she raised her wand and waved it sending three bonebreakers at Voldermort who smiled cruelly. He dodged and said "So be it little girl, so be it."
"You know you wont get away with this right? Harry must've felt the wards drop, he and rest of the order will be here in moments. More to that how did you find this place? It was under the fidelous charm." Delphini said trying to gain a bit of time before her father started attacking.
"That is where you are wrong daughter of mine, I stole a rather affective device from the DOM. It helped me in creating quite a useful hole in your rather impressive wards. As for finding the location it was easy to get the location from my death eater. You chose the wrong man to keep your secret." Voldermort said with a cruel smirk playing on his lips as he saw the look of horror on his daughters face. He then raised his wand and sent several blood boiling and organ entrails curses at Delphini whose eyes widened at the number of curses flying her way after which she hastily said "Aegis maximus." A golden shield soon formed infront of her and took on all of the curses. Each curse hitting it with resounding gong. Delphini cursed, she was a witch, a duelist who liked to move around. However with her daughter behind her she couldn't afford for a curse to go behind her. Hence she would have to rely on her raw power alone and hoped the cavalry arrived in time.
She then banished her shield at Voldermort who was still firing curses at her. The shield flew towards Voldermort taking the curses as it went subsequently getting weaker as it travelled. Delphini took the moment to conjure several small animals before waving her wand to enchant the animals with some of the dark curses she knew. She then pointed her wand at Voldermort causing all of the animals to attack him in different speeds and angles. Voldermort raised his eyebrow, impressed by the attack before he raised a shield in front of him, which took care of the animals. With all of them dying upon contact with the shield. When all the animals were done he lowered his shield and fired several dark cutting curses as he said " A very interesting tactic there Delphi dearest, but not an effective against someone like me."
Delphini banished the furniture towards the oncoming curses and said "Don't be so sure." She said as a spider dropped on voldermorts eye and exploded pushing voldermort back a few steps. However due to the various rituals that voldermort had done on himself the effect was rather negligible as he turned around to show himself to be missing an eye but was otherwise unfazed.
"I see, very well done on getting a scratch on me, the only one I expected to be capable of this was Dumbledore, but now that you have harmed me, I am going to get serious, good luck defending yourself daughter." Voldermort said hissing the last part in parseltongue as he his hand flashed in inhuman speed.
Spells of all types were fired with unreal speed and accuracy. Delphini hastily erected not only a shield but also used avis to send a large number of birds to block the oncoming curses. However this time the rally of spells was much more intense and had a number of unforgivables included in it. One such crucio escaped the birds and flew past Delphinis shield hitting her square on the chest causing her to scream in agony as she fell down on the ground. Voldermort stopped the rest of his attack but the kept the curse active as he slowly walked towards Delphini. After five minutes of continuous use when it looked like that Delphini was about to break he lifted the curse and looked at wincing form of his daughter. Her eyes, nose, mouth and ears all were bleeding and it was clear that she had experienced quiet a bit of nerve damage. Feeling slightly remorseful at her condition he turned around and pointed his wand at Persephone hoping to finish what he came for and then leave. However before he could cast the spell at Persephone a hand grabbed and tugged at his robes making his aim slightly off. Signed irritatedly he turned and saw Delphini clinging on to his robes a desperate look in her eyes.
"Please don't kill her, kill me instead just please let her go. She doesn't deserve to die." She begged in between coughing and vomiting globs of blood.
Voldermort did not say instead he merely pointed his wand at Delphini and said "Avada Kedavra." A flash of green light erupted from his wand and hit Delphini killing her instantly. Sniffing irritatedly he turned his attention to a crying Persephone who was leaning her hands towards the fallen Delphini.
"Mama!" Persephone cried. "Mommy...mommy!"
"Well it seems like this is the end, I would say Im sorry for this but I really wouldn't mean it. Avada Kedavra." He said pointing his wand at Persephone. He watched in satisfaction as the green light hit the little girl, however said satisfaction turned into horror when the curse was deflected of her and hit him instead. Voldermort screamed in agony as he felt himself exploded sending a wave of magic outwards causing the wards around the cottege to fall.
Meanwhile back at 12 Grimmauld Place, the headquarters of the order of the Phoenix James, his wife Lily, his best friends Sirius Black and Remus Lupin were attending a meeting. The order meetings were pretty boring but they were crucial during war times and this war they were fighting was quite the dangerous one. Harry was their biggest asset to the war, he was not only a brilliant strategist, but he was an expert duellist, trained by Mad Eye Moody. It was thanks to him that their were less casualties on the light side.
Speaking of Harry, he exited the floo gracefully and entered Dumbledores office. The office was set up to host a meeting and harry guessed that Dumbledore had decided to call in a meeting. Walking towards the old man sitting at the heads seat harry said
"You called for me Albus?" Harry asked walking towards the old man sitting at the heads seat.
"Ah harry, how are you? How is your apprenticeship going with Nicholas, he told me that you would begin your magical domain training soon." Dumbledore said as Harry sat down on his right.
"Its going good, Im almost done with my Alchemy degree, but Im thinking of keeping my domain training on hold until the war ends. You know just to be sure everyone is safe." Harry said to which Dumbledore replied with a nod.
Harry began talking with Albus Dumbledore going over tactics, and other plans. Dumbledore was impressed by his former student, his analytic mind and ability to turn even the darkest of situations into an advantage was greatly desired. He truely lived up to his mother's reputation. Harry's mother, was none other than Felicity Potter nee Malfoy. A potions and charms mistress in her own right. Not only that, she was also a spy for the order after she defected and turned traitor against the Malfoy family. Sadly she was killed along with her husband Godric Charles Potter, James Potter's uncle two years before the birth of their granddaughter, Persephone.
"Very well, I would like to discuss our next moves with you, the war is heating up and like I said your brain and abilities have saved our lives on more than one occasion." Dumbledore said.
"Alright, do we have any other information on us? It could be anything from the location of safe houses to any planned attack?" Harry asked wanting to get the first piece of information before planning his response.
"Not as such." Dumbledore replied with a shake of his head.
"I see well then I think we should go on the Offensive once again. We can target the Jugson and Dolohov manors, from what we know every single member of those familys are death eaters getting them out of the way will be immensely helpful." Harry said.
"We shouldnt be so keen to kill even if the people involved are our enemies." Dumbledore said with a slight frown.
"Im not saying to kill them as a primary objective, we should focus on imprisoning them but if the situation requires then we should take the final step and be done with it to stop them from causing even more harm." Harry retorted calmly.
Dumbledore conceded that with a sigh and then began discussing the plan of attack. As they whispered the plan of attack between eachother the remaing members of the order slowly tracked in not at all surprised to see Harry and Dumbledore conversing quietly.
James Fleamont Potter watched the scene with Disdain. Harry was the perfect poster boy for everything good. The heir of the potter family fortune, He was the headboy from there generation, a duellist whose skill was praised even by Mad eye moody, the youngest apprentice to one Nicholas Flamel, being a strategist who had saved countless of lives with his strategies and had taken down a good number of the opposition. And finally the fact that it was obvious to everyone around the globe that Dumbledore had choosen Harry to lead the light once he decided to retire. Despite that Harry instead of following the stereotype had married a half blood slytherin. A fact that made James hate him even more.
It didnt just stem from that, ever since they were kids it was clear that Harry was simply better, in every field. Where James was a great chaser Harry nearly always beat him due to his incredible seeking ability, where James excelled in Transfiguration and arithmancy harry had him beat in all other subjects, Harry had been a prefect from year 5 and had become the headboy with Lily Evan's during their last year. He had grown even stronger thanks to his training with Flamel and Moody.
He however was bought out of his jealous musings when Dumbledore announced the start of the meeting. 5 minutes later one of the ornaments that monitored the state of the wards around the orders safe houses exploded. In the exact same moment Harry felt the wards around his cottage drop. Color leaving his face, harry abruptly stood up and said "The wards around the cottage have fallen!" And with that he ran out of the room running as fast as his legs would carry him towards the apparition point. Dumbledore and the rest of the order members were following in close behind.
He turned and disappeared as soon as he entered the apparition point and travelled to his cottage. Expecting an on going battle the only thing he found was that the once homely cottage was now in ruins with fires around and dark magic residue in the air. Ignoring both the things he rushed inside only to come across the sight of his wife dead by his daughter's cot. His daughter herself had a bleeding forehead and was out cold. At this moment he didn't know whether she was alive or dead.
He ran towards his wife pulling her into his chest as he sobbed and cried to the heavens in sorrow. This was the scene that the others walked into, all of them looked shocked at seeing the proud, strong and infallible Harry Potter bawling his eyes out. Dumbledore felt a tear going down his own cheek at seeing one of his brightest students murdered so brutally.
He of course knew Delphinis heritage, however he had seen how she changed over the years and then married a man firmly in the light grey side. His eyes then caught sight of Voldermorts cloak and wand that were clattered along the floor, eyes widening he turned to Persephone and raised his wand casting a few diagnostic charms. After he was done he smiled and said
"The dark lord is vanquished and looks little Persephone vanquished him" Albus smiled.
"But how Albus she can't do any magic" Lily asked.
"I believe the love Delphini had for Persephone was what gave her the power to destroy Voldemort." Dumbledore sagely replied
"Then the dark lord is truely gone?" James asked. "He's finally gone?" Hope shining through the room.
Vanquished James but not dead. I know Voldemort had a backup plan in case he failed. Which means he will be back one day and we need to prepare Persephone for the task ahead." Dumbledore explained
Hadrian didn't like where this was going. For one they were praising her for something she wouldnt even remember when she's older. Second they want to train her to be solider against a man who had years If not decades of magical training.
"Are you sure? It could have been a fluke" Lily asked concerned.
Albus cast his wand over the baby again to reveal her magical core was drastically low. It was above squib level but in Dumbledore's eyes that proved his theory. He needed to ensure she was fully trained to defeat Voldemort. But he couldn't put this burden on her at a young age. "Its no fluke Lily my dear. Love is the most powerful form of magic. Something Tom couldn't understand." Albus answered.
"So what should we do now?" Remus asked him.
"For now let's let her enjoy her childhood. She is a still a baby and there will be plenty of time for training when she attends Hogwarts." The Headmaster smiled.
There was also something else that Albus didn't want to reveal. When he scanned the girls core he noticed her magical core was a bit different than other wizards and witches. Her magic just like her fathers had a silver color. While his was faintly silver and grey hybrid hers was pure silver. Magical cores in all of history were dark, white, or gold. But never in all of history was there ever someone with a silver magical core. Another he noticed about her was that her mark where she was struck with the killing curse was actually a rune symbol. It was the Nordic rune Ingwaz which means Love, unity, and harmony.
"Now hold on Albus, I may have just lost my wife to my father in law. But I will not have my daughter become some kind of soldier. She already fulfilled that prophecy Sybil told you. And besides you say that he will come back? Good let him, I will be ready and he will know that the last thing he ever did was cross me." Hadrian angrily said through his tears as he picked up his daughter. The cold malice in his tone had several people in the room shivering.
"Yes, she did. But Voldemort isn't defeated only vanquished. And you can't kill voldermort, its Persephone's destiny to kill him." Albus reminded him.
"Even so Albus, she's only a little baby. Her grandfather has over 70 years of experience. Besides my wife's sacrifice was what killed the dark lord. She's the real hero. And do you think I care enough about prophecys to care? I will have control over my domains long before be returns and when he does, I will lay waste to him. My daughter won't be made into a soldier for fighting a psychotic egomaniac." Harry thundered out in his lord voice causing several people to step back.
What Harry didn't know was that Delphini used old vasir magic from old norsic magic. Which requires a sacrifice of the purest degree. Therefore once his wife lost her life the runes for protection embedded in the spell created a shield so great that it reflected the killing curse. So in reality there was no Girl who lived. But this was a fact that harry wouldn't learn about until after his training was done.
Dumbledore sighed as Harry glared down at him. His students Voilet eyes shining in unrestrained power. While Dumbledore knew he was stronger, Harry was a wizard who would grow into someone who would be even stronger than him, that was why he couldn't be ostracized.
"I think it is best if all of us retired for the night, it has been a trying time, I will inform the ministry of what transpired here. Harry even if you disapprove of my theory, the public wont look at it like that. She will be placed on a pedestal. I think it would be best if you went for the last phase of your training. Take little persephone with you, there arent many places safer than that." Saying that he turned around and walked out the door, followed by the rest of the order. Leaving behind only Sirius and Harry.
"Harry why don't you come over and stay at my place tonight, I don't think it would be wise for you to stay alone tonight." Sirius gently said as Harry nodded blankly. With a silent crack both disappeared into the night.
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