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CHAPTER 3: "A little explaining to do"
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"Harry. Harry!" Harry was dimly aware of someone tapping his sholder.
"Wha-?" He stammered.
"Wake up Harry!" Sirius was now shaking Harry fully, and he soon came to his senses.
"Stop it!" He got up, and moved to a seat nearer the front of Dumbledore's office, where Remus Lupin was already sitting. Harry and Sirius took their places.
"What is it Albus?" Lupin asked. "What have you been stewing over while the rest left." Remus had a strange expression on his face, part smiling, part curious, and part worried.
"Well," he began "it's about Voldemort. He has already got many magical creatures on his side, but we must stop him getting more. Severus is finding out more as we speak, but Voldemort has picked up where he left off at his downfall. In fact, the very night he died."
Sirius' smile dropped. "Albus? Must we?"
"What? What must we do? What's going on?" Harry asked. Clearly they where keeping something from him.
"Allow me to explain. All through the Dark Days, Voldemort was trying to regain power." Sirius began. "He found many means of reaching a state where he was almost immortal. Voldemort was merely destroyed. He was trying to avoid Death as we know it.
"He knew of only one way to overcome Death: The Dragon's Egg from Mount Fate in Bulgaria. It gives eternal life to he who cracks it open, which, by my reckoning is no easy task. It gives such power to them, that they can effectively take over the world in a matter of months. It is full of such Evil, no-one who breaks it with good intent will be able to keep the from overpowering them. If they weren't already darkened by evil, they would soon be. Salazar Slytherin created this Egg before he moved on to other things. One thing I don't understand is why didn't he himself break it and have Power beyond any other?"
"Ah, that is a good question." Albus thought for a moment. "I hadn't considered the thought, but the only possible explanation is that he who made the Egg, could not use it."
Harry, who had kept quiet through the discussion, had an idea. "This is why he needed an heir! Tom Riddle's purpose was to find the Egg, and carry on Slytherin's work."
"That may well be his reasoning behind it." Sirius commented.
"Anyway" Remus continued, "the last people to know where it was were Lily and James Potter. Where exactly it was remains a mystery."
"Well, not exactly" Dunbledore cut in. "I and Wormtail know, as well as Voldemort."
"But if Voldemort knows, he will have it!" Harry exclaimed.
"My dear boy, he cannot get to it. It is in you that the Egg lies."
"ME? But how?
"It is inside you. It serves many purposes, of which I will name but a few. Firstly, You are not able to die. That is the REAL reason that you could not be murdered by the Dark Lord that night, 14 years ago. Secondly, you have enormous power. You, Harry, have spells on you to make you bad at magic, especially Potions. Slytherin's own speciality comes out stronger than any other art in you."
Harry was laughing. "Good joke! Really good, but did you really think I would fall for it?"
"Harry!" Dumbledore shouted. "This is NO JOKE! You have to destroy the Egg. The lava that flows from Mount Fate is the only thing that can undo the evil. You must walk up its slopes, and find Salazar Slytherin's passage under the mountain. You must travel to the depths of the Earth. Only there is the lava hot enough to melt the egg."
"But I don't know the way to Bulgaria!"
"Harry, you will have help. I, for one am behind you." Albus told the young Wizard.
"I, too will go." Severus had just entered, looking paler than ever.
"We all will." Sirius said beaming.
"What news?" Albus asked.
"None" Severus told him, looking at the others wearily. Albus got the message.
"Meeting adjourned. We leave in five days. We meet again tomorrow."
The two friends left the room, leaving Harry with Snape and Dumbledore.
"So," Dumbledore began. "What news?"
__________ END CH. 3 __________
See, I promised a longer chapter, didn't I? Well, O.K, I spaced it out a bit, but its longer, really!