"Why Mr. Riddle, can't you see Harry? I mean, he is right here in the room." The woman had finally spoken up, though her message was far from reassuring. If Harry was in this room, and he couldn't see him, that could only mean one thing, he had a secret keeper, but whom? Surely after that little trick didn't seem to work for that boys parents, they wouldn't be stupid enough to try it again, would they? What if the secret keeper was Dumbledore himself? There might be some trouble if that was the case, but surely not too much since the headmaster of Hogwarts was getting on in his years! But, if it wasn't Dumbledore than who was it? Wait a minute, I remember there being a witch or something living somewhere on this street. What was her name again? O yes, Mrs. Figg! Well, we'll just have to see if Mrs. Figg trusts her ability as secret keeper or not. I wonder if a spell can still work on an invisibly person? A person that I am not supposed to know lives here. I will just have to find out.
"So, Harry is in this room is he?" When he asked that, Voldemort notice Mr. Dursley glance in the direction of what appeared to be open air. That must be where Harry is, thought the Dark Lord. The woman fainted in what appeared to be surprise at his question. Come to think of it, she had glanced at that open air a minute beforehand. Maybe Harry had done something that Voldemort obviously didn't see or hear. "Excuse me Mr. Dursley, but could you do me a favor and pick Harry up and bring him right in front of me?" This way, Voldemort would have an idea of where Harry would be when he tried to kill him. He watched Vernon gather an invisibly something and start walking toward him. Right when he was about to reach him, Voldemort whipped out his wand, pointed it more or less at the invisibly thing, and shouted, "AVADA KEDAVRA." Green light shot out of his wand and the old man dropped dead. The man, that means that Harry couldn't be harmed by spells. That must have been a pretty complicated spell to protect Harry like that, Voldemort thought. Well, since one's down, I should probably finish off the rest. "Avada Kedavra, Avada Kedavra," he said, killing the rest of the Dursley's. A whimper behind him caused him to turn, "Wormtail, what are you doing still in that fireplace? Get out! We have to put the dark mark over this house; maybe Mrs. Figg will walk right into our trap. Oh, and Potter, don't think I'm done with you yet!" With that, Voldemort strolled out of the house and onto the street. He raised his wand into the air, said an incantation, and the dark mark came out of his wand to hover over the house. Then he waited near the house, but out of sight. Sure enough, running footsteps were soon heard and the witch known as Mrs. Figg came into view. She gasped in horror at the dark mark over Harry's house and dashed inside. Voldemort followed.
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That was weird, Harry thought. Of course, by now he was used to weird things happening to him. I mean, he is a wizard after all. But, for a 15 year-old wizard, what just happened to him was classified as unusual, not weird because things aren't called weird in the wizard world, where anything could happen. (A/n: sorry if that didn't make sense!)
Having a spell go right through him had indeed disturbed Harry a bit. I mean, you would be scared too if you saw your worst enemy whip out his wand, point it where you were and shout the incantation that would bring your death. Harry knew that Voldemort couldn't see him, but he hadn't known if the spell would actually find its target. I guess in a way, he was glad that Vernon was dead, that meant that he wasn't. And it was a relief to know that he would never have to live with the Dursley's ever again! Although he did hope that that reason hadn't been because they had died in the hands of his enemy. They were the only family that he had left, even if they weren't much of one. Harry came back to his senses when he realized that there was tears, real tears streaming down his face. Harry never cried, not anymore! Well, it did make sense; the Dursley's were the only family that he had ever known. Hurriedly, Harry whipped the tears from his eyes. There was no such time to crying, not when there was things to do, like find out where Voldemort had gone to, and what was he saying about Mrs. Figg knowing about the dark mark? She couldn't possibly know about the dark mark unless… but it couldn't be, could it? Mrs. Figg couldn't be a witch, could she? Surely Harry would've known! Hearing running footsteps, Harry realized that Mrs. Figg would be in big trouble if she came to the house, because Voldemort was most likely still nearby. He had to warn her.
Harry ran to the front door. He was careful to stay inside the house because he wasn't sure how far the spell on him extended. Inside the house, he was probably safe; well he had already proved that. Outside, well he didn't want to be caught off guard. "MRS. FIGG," Harry yelled, loud enough to wake the dead. "Harry?" came the reply, "you're all right?" "YES NOW GET OUT OF HERE!! VOLDEMORT'S NEARBY!!!!"
He was rewarded with a quick gasp, a muttered curse (Voldemort), and a muttered incantation (Mrs. Figg). He hoped that Mrs. Figg was going to be all right. Meanwhile, Harry had to stay in the house, in case Voldemort was near by.
Footsteps were coming from the house. Harry whirled around, hoping that Voldemort wasn't still there, and if he was, that he still couldn't see him. Instead, he saw Wormtail slowly making his way from the living room to the door, where Harry was! He watched as Wormtail used his silver hand to balance himself, and crushed the chair he was using for a balancer, causing him to fall to the ground, punching a hole in that as well since he used the same hand to try and catch himself. I don't want to get in the way of that hand Harry thought to himself, he had wanted to wrestle Voldemort, but with Wormtail, Harry would prefer wands! He quickly left the doorway to wander to his room. There, he decided to send a quick letter to Dumbledore.
Dumbledore,
Well,
you were right, everything did turn out okay, in a way. Voldemort didn't see me, though you probably
already knew that! He tried to see if a
spell would somehow get to me. He found
where I was by having Uncle Vernon hold me up, and then shot the death spell at
me. Needless to say, Uncle Vernon then
dropped to the floor, dead. Dumbledore,
I think that Voldemort is starting his death streak; he killed the rest of the
Dursley's. Mrs. Figg came when she saw
the Dark Mark, I think he was going to kill her too, but I warned her just in
time. Is Mrs. Figg a witch? Why didn't I know? Well, I'm going to stay in the house for the time being, I
suspect that nobody evil can see me here so I'm safe.
Harry
P.S. If the Dursley's are dead, where am I going
to stay next summer?
Hedwig had returned from her earlier job that evening, while Harry was busy downstairs. She had somehow gotten Sirius's letter off of her leg and was eating and drinking calmly in her cage. She seemed unaware of the troubles that had been going on that night. When Harry came to her, with a letter in his hand, she looked at him tiredly. "Please Hedwig, its important." Reluctantly, she stuck out her leg and with a nip, that was a bit sharper than usual, was out the window.
Harry then read Sirius's letter:
Harry,
I trust
Dumbledore, so I think your safe. Hope everything
turns out all right!
Snuffles
This letter was short and to the point, as were all of Snuffle's letter, in case the got read by the wrong people! Which reminded Harry, he called him Sirius in the last letter! Boy I'm lucky these days! It was probably a miracle that that letter didn't get intercepted. And with that last thought in his head, Harry drifted off into sleep, a sleep plagued by nightmares that resembled what happened that day.
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Okay I hope that was longer! Thanks for all the reviews! I killed off the Dursley's because I thought that I was making Voldemort off as too nice, being polite, and only coming to a MUGGLE house to kill Harry. Besides, now that he had risen again, he is going to start killing, so I had him start. I know that end there was kind of stupid, but I was over most of the action and got a little bored! Next chapter hoped to be soon!