Disclosure Hp belongs to Jkr. The storyline, new character development, new events, and new characters are my intellectual property. Glorioux

a/n two or so more chapters. next mm again.

Lemons and Demons

The spy eye reported to Albus. "The Malfoy heir proposed to the Gryffindor witch. She accepted."

Albus dismissed it, he had enough troubles. He was afraid of the demon, the one he had trusted since ever, feeling conflicted but not enough. He needed to talk to his new professor, Mr. Olbo, and ask him to keep quiet for a while. He had to know what that was because he needed to destroy it. Maybe Olbo had ideas.

A spirit, a ghostly figure, stepped in front of him. "Albus, my tart lemon, you were a stubborn child, but it is not too late to change. Maybe you should forget all your hatred, talk to Tom, seek peace; the demon blinded you, many children died in the Greyback raid, babes. Much worse than anything Tom ever did."

Only one person called him that name because of his love for lemons, "Mom, is that you?" His voice broke.

Albus felt a cold hand on his forehead, he knew that perfume, "Yes, my love, my oldest baby. We can all be forgiven, you have done many good things and terrible wrongs. Let Gellert go from your heart, he loved the wife you killed, and all those related to him. I want you with me, so you must let it go. Ariana is here, she misses you."

Albus blinked, and the ghost was gone. Over his desk, there was a candied lemon slice, a homemade jelly, sprinkled with magical glowing sugar. He recognized it; he would help his mother sprinkling the just made jellies. Tears rolled down his face, it was his mother. He put his head on his desk and cried.

It was his mother, he was given one last chance, what had he done? Killing babies, why oh why?

He went to see Gellert. "I need your help." He told him about the demon.

Gellert said, "I will help. But you must let me go. I will look for anyone alive. In any case, I want to live my last years in peace. You must also let someone else do your job."

"Agree, what do we need?"

A demon

Fenrir went back to the fortress, his heart no longer ached. Finding Amelia's great-grandchild had brought him back from the hell where he was at. He wanted peace more than anything else. What had Albus done? He went to his library and went to see Tom with the book he had found.

"Tom, I have an emergency," Fenrir told him about the meeting. He showed him the book.

"We need a witch or a wizard with a pure heart. I am too tainted, and you have done your share. We need my daughter, and we need a few more magical people, maybe her young friends, Lucius is still pure of heart. It is a lot to ask from them, but we need to send the demon back. One problem, I don't know of any portals, but he got out of one."

"There might be one at the fortress, but once open, anything else can come out." Fenrir worried.

"No, read here, the portal will pull the demon in, but will not open. Or if it does, we won't know it. Hence, my daughter, her magic is powerful. Damn Albus, who knows how he brought it. Oh, no, how could I forget, Our girl is marrying tonight, I guess I must stop it." Tom grabbed his forehead.

"No, come with me first, I don't know if the ugly thing is still being held." Fenrir urged.

Someone was at the Floo. It was Abraxas. "Tom, read this owl. I don't believe it."

"Excuse me, oh? Do I know you?" He looked at Fenrir.

Fenrir grinned, "You do, has been a while. I looked a little different, not long ago. Nice to see you again."

"Are you Fenrir?" Abraxas asked incredulously.

Fenrir nodded. "You knew me at Hogwarts before I was 'bitten.'"

"Read the owl. Could this be true?" Abraxas passed the scroll to Tom.

Tom read it aloud,

"Abraxas, I am sending you this scroll, hoping that you can forward it to Tom. It is not a hoax. We must talk, I have a new professor, he will come with me. This is time to make a change, so I want to discuss peace. I might not agree with all you think, but we can make compromises. Tom needs to be present. I would like to meet as soon as possible.

You decide the time and place. I believe the demon found a portal, the portal where it is sent back must be sealed, I can do it with some help, I have the one to do it. But first, we need to find where the demon is. Then the portal must be sealed no later than 48 hours after the entity is sent back. I will do that, I have the person to help.

Waiting for your answer

Albus Dumbledore.

"Let's hope it is true about peace. But first, we must send a demon back", Fenrir told Abraxas what happened earlier.

"The wedding, we need to move for tomorrow. Please tell Lucius we need him, and to postpone the wedding for a day. They are in love, so we need them. It is a dangerous demon; it could destroy all of us. It is a valiant act, probably to save us all. I believe my daughter will accept, so allow Lucius. I think they can destroy the demon." Tom insisted.

Tom was sad, he didn't want to endanger his child. He looked around the room, Abraxas was upset, Fenrir was afraid but had seen the demon.

"So be it; but we must be there to prevent harm coming to them," Abraxas said.

"Do you think I will allow anything to hurt my child? I would give my life first. But I want my grandchildren to live in a peaceful world, even if it means my death." Tom knew that was the truth; the love he felt for his child had caught him unaware, it had started to dissipate the darkness from him. He wanted her to have a long, happy life, at the cost of his if necessary.

"If it is a demon, Albus will be needed, as he said. He will be able to tell if the demon is gone and seal the portals unless you know how." Abraxas recommended.

Afterward, they went to the fortress. The situation was dire, the demon, or whatever entity, was trapped, but the net was breaking. Many of Fenrir's wolves were holding the entity back. It tried luring those holding him with promises of power and riches. It spewed lies about Fenrir and others, it tried everything. But with every minute that passed, it became harder and harder to hold it back.

The shadows rejoiced, soon it would be over. This was unexpected; Hermione had done it. She brought Fenrir back from the darkness that took over, went with Albus to meet one the evils one roaming the earth. Albus was able to see what was happening and had offered peace. Their valor and Albus signing the peace would do it.

She was a peace bringer, just as he hoped. Tom offering his life for his child was most significant, the triumph of love over evil. They hoped it to be the truth and hoped Gellert would be freed. He would be, they were confident that Gellert was the one to help Albus.

When they brought Lucius and Hermione, "I don't want to risk Ermi, why? I want our marriage, as we had agreed." Lucius was upset and afraid to lose his beloved. The idea made him physically ill.

But Hermione told hem, "I will do it. The war must end, if the demon gets away, it might influence Dumbledore once again. That cannot happen, so I will ask my guards, as Lucius calls them. If we need at least eight plus me, they will come. Let's see, Lucius, Remus, James, Sirius, Pettigrew, Severus, Rabastan, oh, Pettigrew went home, his mother is sick."

"Zecke is coming, it will be all right. We could bring the Prewett brothers, but we have enough. The younger wizards just need to be there." Fenrir explained.

Hermione nodded, whereas she liked Pettigrew a bit better, the distrust wasn't gone. Besides, his magic wasn't strong, so it was best this way.

Fenrir would find a way to take them out Hogwarts. Hermione talked to the young Wizards to see if they would do it, and everyone agreed. Professor Olbo asked Dumbledore if could borrow a couple of Slytherin to help him gather some herbs he needed. Dumbledore was distracted but said to do it. Albus added that he waiting for an answer to meet with acquaintances, and he needed Professor Olbo there. While they were talking, an owl came.

"Do it, but we are meeting here in my office. Be here at 9:00 tomorrow, make the needed arrangements."

Fenrir was fond of jellies, he saw the lemon slice jelly on a small china plate. "I am quite fond of lemon jellies." He hoped to be offered it.

Albus said, "Have a lemon drop, the jelly is not for eating."

Fenrir shrugged his shoulders, took a drop, and started leaving, but when he turned to say goodbye, he saw Albus crying, looking at the jelly. Later he would recall it.

Fortress Greyback

They looked for the portal, all the ones Fenrir identified as possible. After two hours, they knew they needed help. Abraxas suggested they look at Malfoy Manor, but they might lose the demon moving it, the net was breaking.

The shadows were forbidden to help, what could be done?

Tom smiled, "We could bring Albus, but not until we have a signed agreement. But I might have just the thing. Fenrir, please bring my daughter again."

Fenrir was back in twenty minutes. "Darling, ask Serge if he knows how a portal should look. He is yours and will only answer to you."

Serge screeched upon Hermione's command, then left and came back some minutes later. A small scroll appeared on Hermione's hand. "There is one here, but I cannot tell where with certainty. Probably because it is tainted with Darkness and has cracks, evil seeping out of them. You need an expert. I can show you the general area."

Hermione read the message aloud.

"Abraxas, you need to go and talk to Albus, but not alone." Tom directed. "He can be brought with a magic shroud and an unbreakable."

"I will go with him. I will say Ermi requested for me to accompany her beau's father." Fenrir suggested.

Albus was sitting by the fire, the lemon jelly still on the small silver plate, on the table in front of him.

He was surprised to see Abraxas with Fenrir, "Sir, my student Ermi requested I accompanied her beau's father."

"I wasn't expecting you. What is happening?" Albus asked.

"One of my associates informed me that he thinks there is a portal in his place. His people have the demon, but he only knows the possible area where the portal is at. He says you were beyond a massacre at his place, but all he wants now is peace."

Albus didn't look well, "We are all guilty of much;" his eyes were fixed on the jelly, he tapped, and said, "Do you want me to find the portal?"

"Yes, but first, we must have an unbreakable that you will go forward with the peace signing, and whatever you see, will never be discussed with anyone."

"I will do it," Albus said.

"We need a witness," Abraxas pulled his wand, a small bird flew out the room. In minutes someone was knocking at the door of the headmaster.

"Coming, "Dumbledore said, wondering what the professor would come.

There were no professors, only Hermione.

"Ah, our mysterious student, I see. Do I know your parents? You seem so familiar," Albus wondered, not for the first time.

Hermione shrugged her shoulders, "You know a lot of people." A small owl flew out her desk went up on the air and caught something on top of a shelf. They heard a shriek, and the owl went back on Hermione's pocket after dropping something on the table.

Fenrir commented, "A spy eye, I see, who of us have you been spying"? He was about to leave the room, anger rose up to his throat, stopping a snarl on time.

A tiny scroll fell on the table by Fenrir, he opened it. "The Albus has been spying on my mommy, I think the Eye had new information, take it ."

Fenrir passed the scroll to Abraxas and Hermione.

"Why are you spying in my son's promised? How can we trust you?" Abraxas wanted to leave.

Albus sighed, "Part of my errors." He pointed his wand to destroy the eye, but Hermione saw his hand move, and the eye banished.

"Where did it go?" Albus looked.

"Not here, are you ready?" Abraxas looked at Albus.

"Yes, but you must promise not to disclose the name of the one who will help, nor ask any questions, nor try to stop him when he wants to leave."

They agreed, and they did an unbreakable, agreeing on signing a peace agreement. The later would be done once the demon or whatever was sent, and the portal or portals were sealed.

"Please wait in the waiting room," Albus asked.

They left, but Serge stayed. Albus went into his entrance to Gellert's Prison. "You will wear a cloak," Albus explained. He decided to trust Gellert, he had to start somewhere.

Gellert was overcome by emotion stepping into Albus' office, "It is warm, so many colors." Tears rolled down his cheeks. His legs were wobbly, "Sorry, it is a dream."

"Sit down, "Albus was feeling awkward, what he has done?

Gellert sat, looking around when his eyes zeroed on the lemon jelly. "It looks like the jellies you used to make, the best." He looked at it with longing.

"My mother's recipe, "his next words cost him a humongous effort, "you want it? Please take it."

Gellert didn't need another invitation, he picked up the jelly, braking in two, "Let's share, it seems like your last one."

Albus took it and put it in his mouth; Gellert did the same.

A noxious fume left their bodies thru their nose and ears; but they didn't notice. All they could taste, and the smell was the taste and aroma of the small lemon jelly. Memories of their happier times, bad times leaving with the fumes. The magic of the candy working on them. On the palate, there were two jellies now.

Albus laughed, a happy laugh, "My mother said, he who shares gets twice as much enjoyment in return. She loved riddles and magic games."

Gellert was quiet and nodded. Albus pulled his wand, covering Gellert with a cloak. He went into a box, pointed his wand, and passed a wand to Gellert. "Are you trusting me this much?" His hand shook, he couldn't tell Albus that he had a wand.

"Why shouldn't I, we will need to work together, let me get my satchel. It is ready, let's go. I will introduce you as my associate. Have another jelly."

They both had one, and now the plate had three. Both chuckled, Albus felt lighter, ready for whatever it came.

Leaving the room, he heard a young person laughing, he knew the laugh, Ariana's. He smiled. He hoped to see them whenever it was his time.

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A/N Maybe all will be well.