Majo Kon-ki The Marriage of Tanya the Witch

(The marriage chronicles of a witch)

Arc 2 - Chamber of Secretspart 8 and final

May1993, The Chamber of Secrets in an undisclosed location atHogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry

"GINNY!" Harry screamed seeing the fallen girl.

Checking her signals, Tanya confirmed that her pulse was weak and her breathing slow. A 'further' analysis indicate that her mana was flowing out of her body, like it was being drained.

"I-is she…?"

"Not yet! Hurry, let's carry her back to the school-"

"It's useless…"

Tanya and Harry turned to see… a 'blurred' Hogwarts' student? He felt like something between a ghost and a person.

"Tom?"

"Who?"

"He is the boy who wrote the diary and showed me Hagrid and Aragog."

"Oh? So he was the one who send us in that wild chase- Wait! His name is Tom and he was in Hogwarts fifty years ago? Is he Tom Riddle?!"

"Huh? You know him?"

"IDIOT! Don't YOU know who Tom Riddle is?!"

"What are-"

"Bravo!" Tom Riddle started to clap.

He explained being a memory of the original Tom Riddle preserved in his diary. The diary was actually a dark artifact intended to drain the life out of whoever writes in it for an extended period of time, all the while, taking control of their body.

Tanya was right all along, Lord Voldemort was the culprit… Only she couldn't expect him to be just a memory!

"Voldemort has even a sentient diary?!" Harry told her it showed the past, but he never said it was this intelligent!

"Ahhhhh! I need to watch out even for books?! I really hate this school!"

"I've waited a long time for us to met, Harry Potter…"

What transpired next was Tom Riddle long bragging about his 'evil schemes' and obsession with Harry Potter… which was okay with Tanya since it also gave her time to plan the best course of action.

It was pretty obvious that she would need to kill this memory, after all, one Voldemort was already too much to handle! And if the 'blurs' were any indication, it had an unstable ethereal body, meaning, it wouldn't be too hard to destroy.

The only risk would be the basilisk, however, there was no sight of it and Tanya didn't feel its presence…

"… killing mudbloods doesn't matter to me any more… my target has been you…"

"Afff… was Voldemort always the babbling villain? Does he have to explain everything- Ah!" She finally understood… he was stalling for time until he sucked Ginny's life out completely!

This prompted the girl into action, she fired her ghost destroying reductor at him.

He had no time to react, just like Peeves, he broke into thousands of pieces and vanished into nothingness…

"What?"

However, in the next moment, Ginny stirred in her sleep and Tom Riddle reappeared, exactly as he was before.

"Hey! I was talking here!"

"Crap! I really thought we would find the specter Voldemort! I don't know how to deal with a 'memory'!"

"Tanya…!"

"Tanya? So… You are Tanya Degurechaff… the lost witch princess!"

"Eh?"

"… how does he knows that story?"

"Even before Ginny told me about your ancestry and connection to Grindelwald, I knew you were special after you single handed drove away the basilisk…"

So far, Tom Riddle was focused solely on Harry, but now, he was reminded of her.

"I was curious about Potter, but you came as a close second. I wished to see the final result of a purebred bloodline being nurtured over the centuries and you didn't disappoint me…"

Tanya gave a step back under his intense gaze.

"I saw you through Ginny's eyes, you have so much magic under this small frame, I can see you growing into a wondrous powerful witch and… owner of unmatched beauty!"

"B-beauty…?!"

"… only maybe, too powerful… Now, I wonder, should I crush you before you became a rival or, perhaps… take you as a partner for life?"

"First 'beauty' and now 'partner for life'?!Is Voldemort hitting on me?!"

After this 'proposal', Harry couldn't stay silent.

"Stay away from her!"

"Please… don't tell me that you are courting her? You are unworthy! A princess deserves a LORD!" He said licking his lips.

"YUCK!"

"She will never join you or Voldemort! And what is the relation between you two? Are you working for him?"

"Harry! You still didn't get it?!"

"Allow me to explain- no, to show him."

The memory pulled a wand form his pocket, probably Ginny's, and wrote his complete name in shimmering letters in the air. Then, he rearranged the letters forming the sentence: I am Lord Voldemort.

Harry was appalled but Tanya was… amused.

"Wait… Is that how you created the name Voldemort?!"

"Brilliant, isn't- what?"

"Pffffff!" Tanya was trying very to hold her laughs.

"Y-you mean that the 'scary' dark lord got his name from playing with words?! So, just for a little bit you could have became… Rivalled Motordom?!" Then she lost control and burst into laughter.

"S-STOP!"

"And… and… what sort of name is Riddle?!" Tanya asked between chuckles.

"I never heard any pure-blood with that name. Tell me that you are not so hypocritical to actually be… a muggle-born…?!"

"You… YOU…!"

"Tanya… what are you doing?"

"Shush Harry!" Tanya whispered to the boy.

The girl had realized it was impossible to destroy this 'memory'. The moment she attacked, it would just suck more life out from Ginny and recompose itself whole.

Her hypotheses was that the only way to kill him would be by damaging the diary it came from. But Tanya had to make sure… after all, if he felt threatened all he had to do was call the basilisk.

She considered killing Tom Riddle the moment he became flesh and blood but… sacrificing Ginny Weasley was out of question.

Not that Tanya was worried with the girl, she would be just collateral damage. A deserving end for someone stupid enough to never suspect the mysterious 'Trojan horse' she got.

Nevertheless… Harry was present, and Tanya wouldn't risk losing the affection of her most valuable human resource.

She needed him more than ever… to someday defeat the true Voldemort, to guard the invisibility cloak until she found the other hallows and… to protect her should an incident like the one with Lockhart ever happens again.

Taking this all in mind, her strategy was to get the memory angry, to provoke it into attacking and spending magic to let her confirm if its mana was coming direct from Ginny or if the diary was still working as a bridge.

"… YOU… do have a point."

"Huh?"

"To pure-blood royalty like yourself, I may look as a… 'mudblood' indeed…"

"Shit! He didn't buy it!"

"Very well, I shall show you a proof of my high-blood status…"

Immediately there was a change in his left hand, it vanished for a second and reappeared this time with a ring in one of its fingers. Just like before, the unconscious Ginny stirred and Tanya using the maximum of her sense ability, saw clearly that her life mana passed through the diary before reaching Tom Riddle.

"This is all I needed to know!"

"Behold: the heirloom of the house of Gaunt. The true descendants of Salazar Slytherim!" He said proudly showing an ugly golden ring with a black stone…

"Ha! That ring just cost you- AHHHHH?!" … bearing the deathly hallows symbol!

'…the stone is the only one to have the symbol of the deathly hallows carved into it.And remember: its currently in a cursed ring! You will die if you as much as touch it' It was what Peverell told her that night seven years ago.

"… I can see you like it-"

"WHERE IS IT?!"

"Hum?"

"TELL ME WHERE THE RING IS!"

"With the original Lord Voldemort, of course."

"I see…"

Tanya cursed mentally, did Voldemort had it with him last year-

"Wait! He is a specter now, he can't carry it around. It must be kept someplace! But where? Should I capture this memory to force it to-"

"Tanya! Ginny condition is worsening! If you are going to do something, do it now!"

"Dammit! I really needed more time!"

Against her wishes… Tanya cast her reductor at the diary and after a huge blast… it was still intact?!

"Nice try… however, it has a special protection, no ordinary spell can damage it."

"…!" Again Tanya fired, this time professor's Snape's sectumsempra curse… the result was the same.

Tanya fired another spell, this time a continuous stream of flames.

"If this doesn't work, we are screwed!"

The notebook was engulfed… and yet, nothing happened.

"I am impressed, you know a fair quantity of dark spells, nonetheless the only way for it to work would be with…"

As Tom Riddle talked, the stream of fire started to spin around the diary, then it assembled in a single spot and grew into a flaming dragon.

"… FIENDFYRE?!" The dragon let out a mute roar and chomped down the diary.

"NOOOOO!" Riddle's scream was too late. At the same time the book was being 'ingested' by the dragon, the young Voldemort's ethereal body was set ablaze.

"And before you disappear, know this: I am not some pure-blood princess, that is just a rumor. I am a muggle-born!"

Tom Riddle answer was a big hiss to her…

A piercing scream seemed to emerge from the diary when her dragon fiendfyre exploded, taking the notebook with it… and Tom Riddle's memory vanished without a trace.

"Did we… win?" Harry asked no one in particular.

"… H-Harry?!" As if on cue, Ginny woke up.

"Ginny! Are you okay?" He said helping the girl to her feet.

"Oh Harry!" Ginny started to sob in Harry's arms, but noticing Tanya, she looked away embarrassed.

"I-I am sorry Tanya… I was terrified of you! But I swear that I didn't want to hurt you! I AM SO SORRY!"

"Tanya listen-"

"It's alright Harry… I don't blame Ginny…"

"But we need-"

"They are going to expel me! Mum and dad will be furious!"

"No they are not and let's leave-"

"You can say it was me."

Both children looked puzzled at Tanya.

"We can say that I found the diary and was controlled by it. People already believe I did it anyway."

"But… what if they expel you?!"

"Actually… McGonagall kicked me out an hour ago."

"… WHAT?!" This revelation seemed to scare Harry even more than Tom Riddle being Voldemort.

"But… but… why would she- SHE CAN'T DO IT!"

"She is the acting headmistress, remember?"

"I will talk to her- No, when Dumbledore returns, I will talk to him!"

"I appreciate but- !" Tanya felt an unpleasant familiar sensation…

"The basilisk…! It's near!"

Then, the gigantic Slytherin face slowly opened its mouth…

"That's what I was trying to say! Tom Riddle called it before fading away!"

"What do we do now? Maybe Harry could talk with it since he is also a parselmouth… No!What if the basilisk refused to hear him?!"

"Harry! Take Ginny and ran away! I will hold it off!"

"I am not leaving you here!"

"This is all my fault! Please leave me here and run!"

"THERE IS NO TIME TO DISCUSS!"

The two kids were silent at Tanya's shout.

"Listen… I have a plan to defeat it… But I can only protect myself, not the three of us!"

"W-what sort of plan-"

"No time to explain! Go! YOU ARE IN THE WAY!"

"…" Harry just stared at her with shame written all over his face. Then, he grabbed Ginny's hand and ran the other way without looking back.

"H-HARRY?! NO! STOP!" The young Weasley was screaming all the way.

"Good! Now lets see if this is going to work…"

Tanya removed the content of the bag she was carrying and put over her head.

"Oh! Hello Miss Degurechaff, long time no see." The sorting hat talked in her mind.

"Cut the crap! You know what I am thinking of doing, right?"

"I do… and I must say its a very daring plan… maybe I should have placed you in-"

"I said to cut the crap! Are you ready?"

"Oh, yes…"

Tanya closed her eyes and pointed her 'devil of Rhine' wand at the mouth of the statue.

This was the plan she conceived when it became apparent that the monster was a basilisk. Originally she cogitated to use her mana detection skill, but at short range, it wasn't very precise. Then she remembered that the sorting hat had no eyes and yet it sees by feeling the presence of a living being close by, it wouldn't die or be petrified by the beast's gaze. The only problem with this tactic was that she would need to trust something that had already lied to her once…

"I didn't lie! I said I would consider placing you in Hufflepuff… and I did. My final conclusion was: It is a bad idea."

"Can we talk about this later?!"

"Okay… Oh! Here it comes."

Tanya could hear a hissing and the sound of something heavy slithering in the ground.

"Tell me when!"

"Point your wand slightly to the left…" Tanya did as she was told.

"ThereSHOOT!"

Tanya fired her most powerful reductor curse. Just like in the bathroom, she concentrated as many mana as possible and this time, she had the plus of having her wand. She could hear it reached its target by the sound of something huge hitting the floor.

"Is it over?" Tanya was almost opening her eyes to confirm the kill.

"No! It still lives!" The hat exclaimed.

"Even after I used my strongest spell against it?!"

"Basilisks have strong hides! You managed to injure it and it will need a few seconds to recover."

"I will keep shooting until it dies!"

"Not recommendable. What if you run out of magic before it dies?"

"I will use fiendfyre!"

"You want to set ablaze a gigantic snake? The fire could spread through the entire chamber… with us inside."

"FUCK! What do I do then?"

"Hum… I guess its time to see if my choosing of your house was correctly…"

"What do you mean- Ouch!"

Something hard and heavy hit Tanya's head inside the hat.

"What is this?" Tanya moved the hat just enough to remove the strange metallic object.

"That is the sword of Godric Gryffindor. Only a true Gryffindor can held it."

"… so what? I am the once and future king of the dormitory now?"

"Its a very sharp and strong blade. Use it to kill the creature."

Tanya began to feel the blade.

"This thing doesn't seem to have a long reach… it looks so small."

"You must understand that Gryffindor got this sword when he was still a child."

"You want me to defend myself with a toy?!"

"Trust me!"

"Last time I trusted you, you lied to me!"

"I already explained!"

"Why are you worried? You can't die!"

"If this thing eat you, I will be melted in his gastric acid! Believe me when I say: I value my existence as much as the next sentient being! Oh! Our time is up…"

"What do you mean- Oh shit!" Tanya didn't need eyes to feel that something was towering over her.

"Shit! Shit! Okay! But if I die and became daughter of that lunatic I swear to come back to burn you myself!" Tanya held the sword firm with her two hands, waiting for the hat's signal.

"Stay like that… yes… Now wait until I say…"

"W-what is this smell? It looks like a serious case of… bad breath?!"

"You don't want to know… Now wait just a little more- NOW!"

At the hat's signal, Tanya thrust the sword with all her strength.


"Harry! We can't- we can't abandon Tanya!" Harry kept dragging Ginny, unfazed by her pleas.

"HARRY!"

"I KNOW! Dammit! I know…" Harry was feeling horrible. It was just like last year against Quirrell and Voldemort… He couldn't do anything, instead, she almost DIED protecting HIM. This was why Harry ran so fast…

'Go! YOU ARE IN THE WAY!' Why he never accepted her invitations to train? Just once he wished to be useful to her…

"We are going back to the school to call for help, alright?"

"Okay…" The young girl nodded just when they reached the long dark pipe.

"Ah!" Then important fact dawned upon him.

"… how do we go back up on this…?" There just wasn't any way to go back up this thing.

"Ginny, you were here before. How did you get out?"

"Sorry… I don't remember."

"…" Harry was apprehensive. The exit was in front of him and yet, he couldn't use it!

He spend a few minutes just staring at the pipe, but no response came.

"Tanya could fly by herself… The irony is that she wanted to teach me! What should I-"

"Hum? You two are still here?"

Harry and Ginny turned to the sound of her voice.

"TANYA?!" Both screamed and hugged her.

"And the basilisk?"

"I- Or should I say… YOU killed it."

Harry didn't need to ask what she meant. Its seemed that once again he would be taking credit for what she did.

"Okay, okay… I did it… But how?"

Tanya showed the sorting hat and explained how she used its 'eyes' to guide her during the fight.

"Huh? From where did you get the hat?"

"I stole from Dumbledore's office. I flew through his window, he leaves it open probably for his phoenix to come and go as it pleases."

"You stole from the headmaster?! Won't this get you in trouble?!"

"It's not like I will be even more expelled anyway."

"Ah! That's right! We need to talk with-"

"TANYA! YOUR HAND IS BLEEDING!" Ginny screamed suddenly.

"Hum? Oh! Its just a scratch. I must have gotten hurt when the basilisk tried to eat me…"

"Have you been bitten?! It's a snake! A poisonous snake! How do you feel?!"

"Me…? Couldn't… feel… any… better-" She suddenly lost her footing and tilted over.

"Tanya?!" Harry grabbed her just before she fell.

Coming closer, Ginny pressed her hand against her forehead.

"H-Harry… she is burning up! We need to get her to help!"

"Blimey! Tanya! Think you can fly through the pipe?"

She tried to take a step towards the pipe, but wobbled over and Harry had to catch her again.

"I… I… don't think… I can…"

"No…" The two children looked helpless as Tanya slowly seemed to worsen.

"… I… don't… want… to… be… Luna's… sister…"

"She is hallucinating…"

Harry placed her on the floor and held her hand.

"Tanya… hang on! You can't die! Don't leave me!"

"Already… told… you… I-" Then she closed her eyes and didn't move anymore. Her breathing was hard and irregular, he understood that she could die at any second.

"No… Please no…" Harry was shaking. Again he was reminded of his own uselessness.

"It's my fault… all my fault…!" He heard Ginny repeating the same sentence between sobs.

Harry couldn't console her… He was already preoccupied with Tanya and… and… why it hurt so much? It was like his heart was being crushed inside his chest.

"She is my family… the only family I have left… the only family I ever had!" All too quickly, the moments they shared together flashed through Harry's mind… finally coming to stop at the image from the mirror of Erised, almost a year ago…

At the time, he was embarrassed, he thought it was a mistake. But now… he wanted that image to turn into reality more than anything else.

"HELP! SOMEONE… PLEASE, HELP HER!" He screamed as high as he could.

"Please… professor Dumbledore… you said you would never leave… that Hogwarts would give help…" Harry whispered more as a pray… he desperately needed to believe she wouldn't leave him. That at the end of the day, they would still be together…

"Yes… together…" Harry closed his eyes, and when he reopened them, they had the blank look of resignation.

"… even in death…"

He slowly raised her hand towards his mouth…

"Harry…! Sob! You can't die too…! Sob!"

"I am sorry Ginny… I can't be with you…"

From the devastated look on her face, Ginny surely comprehended the double meaning of his words…

He was Tanya's boyfriend… deep down, he didn't believe it until now…

He had been afraid… scared of opening his heart again only to spend another summer believing to be abandoned by the people he liked.

"… love… not for a mother… not for a sister…" A small smile appeared in his face… he fulfilled last year's promise at least, he finally understood what it means to truly love someone…

The taste of her blood mixed with poison assaulted his senses but he kept sucking her wound… The venom was acting fast, he felt drowsy, his vision was fogging.

"Ah…" Licking her poisoned blood, he was suddenly reminded that they never shared a legitimate kiss.

"But… before… I… die…"

Harry wished for a first and last kiss before parting this world… Kind of similar to the fairy tales, only that instead of the princess awakening, they both would fall in eternal sleep.

"W-what is that sound…? A song?"

"Huh?" Just like Ginny said, Harry heard music… but not just a mere music, it seemed more like a hymn… it was filling his heart with renewed hope… telling that everything would be okay!

The song kept getting louder until, from the pipe, a crimson bird emerged.

"Fawkes…?"


Tanya opened her eyes…

"WHAT?!" She let a wail of frustration realizing her undeniable reality.

"Aff… Can't believe this ended happening…" Thought the newborn BABY looking at her parents.

"Oh Xeno! She is so perfect!" Said Pandora Lovegood, still recovering from the ordeal.

"Of course she is… she takes after her mum!"

"This is the worst After all my planning… I will need to start it all over from scratch" Baby Tanya let out a grunt.

"Hmmm? She is making a funny face…"

"Oh, she must be hungry!"

"Eh…?"

"I think you are right…" Pandora began to open her blouse…

"W-w-wait a moment!" Tanya realized that she was an orphan in her two last lives… meaning she has no recording of ever being BREAST FEED before…

"Mum? Daddy?" Luna Lovegood showed up just as Tanya was about to be pressed against Pandora's bosom.

"Luna come see you new sister! We will name her 'Tanya', to honor your friend who died last year."

"Phewww! First time I am happy to see this girl!"

"Tanya… my sister…" Luna smiled, taking the small infant in her arms.

"I can hope that Harry survives until I-"

"… no… my crumple-horned snorkack!"

"… what?" Tanya saw her reflection in a mirror across the room…

"T-t-the HELL?!" … and looking back at her was the strangest creature she had ever seen… with a big, CRUMPLED horn sticking out of its head!

"GAHHHHHH!"

Tanya woke up with a startle.

"I-it was dream?!" She thought, checking her head to see if there was anything there.

Looking around, she confirmed being in the hospital wing of Hogwarts.

"That's it! I am done with thisdangerous school! Only two years with nothing but trouble and monsters at every corner!"

She let out a heavy sigh.

"Being expelledmay be the best thing to ever happen to me hereSorry Peverell, but I am out!Although I will try to convince Harry to come with me"

"Speaking of Harry… he is not gonna try to wake me up with a kiss as soon as I fall sleep, right?"

"Do not fret… I would prevent him."

"Ah! Professor?"

Only now she noticed professor Snape sitting in a chair in front of her bed. For a moment, she thought that he would lecture her, but he had a relieved expression.

He explained that even after being saved by Dumbledore's phoenix, she didn't wake up. Madam Pomfrey concluded that just like last year, she suffered of magic depletion. She wasn't hit by the death curse, but her magic drained itself trying to slow down the poison.

"Poppy is taking a well-deserved rest now… she was very tired after watching over you and administering the mandrake restorative draughts."

"So… Hermione and the others must have been turned back"

"Is Ginny-" Tanya cut herself off, she couldn't talk about anything until she finds out what the teachers knew about Ginny's involvement.

"Err… professor, can I ask a small favor?"

"Why, of course… anything!" He said actually smiling.

"C-can you bring Harry here?"

The smile immediately fell from his face… and quickly a scowl appeared.

He got up, turned to the door and rushed out.

"Is that a no?" Tanya sighed hard.

"… is meany fire-girl okay now?"

She looked to the source of the question to see Dobby, the house elf, in the chair previously occupied by professor Snape.

"YOU AGAIN?! BIG-"

"P-please don't call Bigby! Dobby only came to apologize to meany fire-girl!"

He revealed that it was his master, Lucius Malfoy, who was responsible for Ginny getting the diary and the elf's actions were his way of trying to keep Harry Potter from the dangers to come.

"And now, Dobby is free thanks to Harry Potter sir! But he said Dobby was bad with meany fire-girl. So Dobby wished to say he is sorry."

"I see… it was Lucius Malfoy- Ah!" Tanya was reminded of a very important matter.

"Dobby! I will forgive you, but first you are doing something for me!"


"… all's well that ends well!" Harry thought beaming.

It was morning after his return from the chamber of secrets. In the space of just a few hours, so many things happened…

Professor Dumbledore helped everyone understand that Ginny wasn't the one responsible for the chamber's opening, her only sin was of trusting the wrong sort.

"Tanya won't need to take any blame!"

Harry learned that somehow, he got some of Voldemort's abilities… He can't say that he isn't worried, but professor Dumbledore assured that as long as he made the right decisions, everything would be alright.

And Harry choose to became a Gryffindor, as he also choose to help Dobby…

"I wanted to get even with Malfoy's dad after everything he made me and my friends go through this year… especially Ginny."

Ginny didn't have any lasting symptoms of her encounter with Tom Riddle and neither Hermione or the others petrified. Now Ron… he waked up in the hospital wing a few hours later, when Hermione and Ginny were already safe. He felt horrible for passing out from fright and not doing anything to help. His guilty only worsened after seeing Tanya in the next bed…

He wasn't the only one, almost all the students of their year wanted to visit to apologize for accusing her of being the culprit. Even professor McGonagall wanted to talk with her, to explain that her expulsion was just a moment of stress and she shouldn't take that seriously.

"Well… she was still angry for being glued to a wall for an entire hour…"

Harry reckoned that his head of house would spend this summer planning the harshest detention this school ever saw…

"It is still better than being expelled…" This means they would continue to come to this wonderful magical school together until they graduated!

Harry and his friends wanted to spend the night watching over Tanya, but madam Pomfrey declared that she would not wake up until the next day and it would do good for them to leave.

Next came a big feast to celebrate the recovery of all petrified students plus the return of Dumbledore and Hagrid.

On a side note, it would take a few days for people to finally notice Lockhart disappearance. The people who knew him, would think he ran away, but the deluded ones like Hermione, would think he just left since his 'good job' was done. Only Harry and Ron knew the truth… that just as the school was having a feast, Aragog's nest was having a big banquet of their own.

Harry will never feel sorry for him! He stole all the credit of those people, erased their memories… and he did something to Tanya!

'Tanya what-'

'DON'T ASK! Just… don't…'

Harry was very worried… what could have happened?

'Hmmm… Knowing that klutz, I reckon he summoned a dress by mistake on her. Remember how much she hatesgirly stuff?' Ron said last night when they discussed her reaction in the bathroom.

But they had to stop when Hermione approached…


"Harry! Ron!"

"Let's not tell her about Lockhart, alright? She would be sad for the git."

Harry agreed it would be for the best.

"So Harry… I heard you were Tanya's charming prince once again?" Hermione asked.

"A-ah… right…" Harry didn't try to correct this time, the girl herself wanted him to be the hero… and he wouldn't deny her anything.

"Soooo… Are you going to admit you two are head over heels about each other…?"

Ron rolled his eyes.

"Hermione! Don't start this again… Harry told us a million of times-"

"… Sure."

"You are such a kid- Wait, WHAT?"

Both his two friends were looking at him agape.

"I love Tanya… I want to be with her forever. To have a family and make her happy all days as along as I am alive! Happy Now?"

"… KYAAAAHHH! That was the most romantic thing I ever heard!"

Harry let out a radiant smile.

"B-b-but… WHEN?!" Ron asked.

"… since valentine's day."

"I knew the love letter would work!"

"Err… and how far… did you two… y-you know?"

"I keep trying to kiss her but my embarrassment keep getting the better of me…"

"Ohhhhh! So bold!"

"Now you want to even snog her?!"

Harry nodded his head.

"I want to kiss her in the m-mouth…"

"You don't need to be shy, that is pretty normal-"

"… to kiss her cheeks, her forehead, her neck, her ears…"

"B-but you still need to have a little of self-restraint-"

"… her shoulders, her hands, her feet, all of her fingers…"

"H-Harry?!"

"… every single notch of her body!"

"… isn't that a tad too much-"

"I want to do all the stuff couples do together!"

"A-all the s-stuff?!" Both Ron and Hermione blushed furiously.

"Well… maybe not baby making…"

The two seemed relieved-

"B-but if she asks me I might agree…"

The two tensed back!

"NO! I am not making excuses anymore! I will definitely agree!"

Ron just glared at Hermione.

"You didn't answer him… are. you. happy. now?!"

"O-okay… I may have created a monster…"

"Harry!"

"Ugh!"

"Hello Colin! How are you?"

"I am Fine! Thanks to you!"

"Aff… now he will never leave me alone…"

"Oh, and is the princess going to be alright?"

"Princess? Are you talking about Tanya?"

"Tom Riddle also called her that way"

Then Colin told the three kids the story he heard from Snape a few months ago…


Back to the present morning, Harry was walking in the direction of the hospital wing, now thinking about that 'princess story'.

"If what Colin said is true, this means that Tanya was supposed to be from a pure-blooded dark family but-"

Suddenly, he felt someone grabbing him and before he could even see his attacker, he was shoved hard against a nearer wall.

"Ouch! Who are-" Harry found himself looking at a livid Severus Snape.

"Remember what I said on the first day?"

Harry nodded his head.

"I am so dead!"

"Now… give me a good reason to not curse until kingdom come!"

"P-professor, I am sorry-"

"YOU ARE SORRY?! OH! FAMOUS HARRY POTTER IS SORRY! AFTER DEGURECHAFF ALMOST DIED! TWICE!"

Snape took his wand and pointed straight to Harry's face.

"I am the one who is sorry, Potter… But I can't let you be around her anymore… Eventually, her lucky will run out and you will KILL her!"

Snape was right about everything… It hurt to admit. Harry didn't deserve her love but…

"… my girlfriend."

"Hum? What did you just say?"

"I know I am a troublemaker, even Tanya know that and yet… she still accepted to be my girlfriend!"

"SHE WHAT?!" This declaration seemed to take the professor off.

For a few seconds Snape silently gazed at Harry with the look of someone who was trying to decide about something.

"What are your intentions? If you want just a fling-"

"NO! I love her! I truly do! When I thought she was going to die, I-I wanted to die with her! If Fawkes didn't arrive, we would have died from the same poison…!"

"What did you-"

"She is not my sister or my mother but she is my only family, the person I want to be always! I-I WANT TO MARRY HER WHEN WE GROW UP! A-AND HAVE LOTS OF CHILDREN!"

Harry was breathing hard, he just blurted everything that was in his mind… and for Snape of all people!

This didn't seem to impress the potions professor, looking as he had something akin to disgust all over his face. Again he pointed his wand at the boy and this time, he fired.

"WAHHHH- Eh?" Harry saw a bouquet of flowers appear in his hands, no doubt, summoned by the professor's magic.

"… this is…?"

"Hum… You are right." He fired another spell against Harry, the bouquet vanished and in its place was a heart shaped box of chocolate.

"Huh?!"

"Knowing her, she will enjoy better chocolate than flowers… Go. She wants to see you."

"WHAT?"

"If I harmed you, she would never forgive me… I knew it all along… Since the moment you two arrived holding hands almost two years ago…" Snape said between gritted teeth.

"What are you talking, sir?"

"YOU IMBECILE! Are you so blind that you didn't see that she loved you since the start?!"

"Even Snape knew?! Am I so dumb that I was the last one to get it?!"

"Now… go see her."

Harry turned to leave.

"But remember: If you ever hurt her, I will turn your life into hell! And should she fell in love with another, I will fully support him!"

With that last warning, Severus Snape walked down the opposite direction.

"Did I just got his blessing?"

Harry decided to think about this later as he hurried to the hospital wing.

He was about to touch the door when it was opened by inside.

"Harry?"

"Luna? Have you come to see Tanya too?"

"Oh, Harry! Tanya… she… she…"

Harry didn't wait for Luna to finish, seeing her distraught face, he immediately got inside and straight to Tanya's bed.

"No…" … Harry clutched his head…

"I shouldn't have left in the first place…" He would come to regret this decision for the next months…

… as he gazed upon Tanya's empty bed…


"What now?" Thought Lucius Malfoy as he went to check the silent alarm spell placed in his secret dark artifacts room.

"Its probably another rodent!" He was in a bad mood since coming back from Hogwarts.

The plan he spend a long time putting together ended a big waste of time and resources… And to make things worse, the main resource was the dark lord's. For the personal safety of the Malfoy family, it would be better if he never came back.

Absolutely nothing was gained out of this, Dumbledore and Weasley are still thorns in his side, he lost his elf and… the princess almost died! A good thing he never mentioned his plans to Severus Snape…

"Nonetheless, Dumbledore and the Potter boy are bound to babble my involvement-"

"Hello Mr Malfoy." In his drawing-room, his former servant Dobby was serving tea to a little girl… princess Tanya of the Degretschow!

"… CURSES!" Lucius gave a step back, he should escape now and at a later time negotiate-

"N-NARCISSA?!" Lucius exclaimed seeing his wife hanging upside from the ceiling trapped in a web like substance. Her mouth was also covered, turning impossible for her to speak.

"Y-you… Why are you here?" Lucius asked stiff. His instincts telling him to run away… but he couldn't abandon his wife.

"Mr Malfoy, do you understand how hard this year was for me? I believe your son kept you updated."

Yes, Draco told everything that he saw happening around her. How she put fear in the hearts of the toughest students of Hogwarts. About her admiration for Grindelwald as she was caught researching about his life, this made the school believe that she was his related and later, even the heir of Slytherin.

But what she certainly mean… was that both she and her betrothed almost died fighting the creature of Slytherin.

"I-if you mean the recent events, I assure you that my involvement was merely a fabricated-"

"Former master is lying, meany fire-girl!"

"Oh, well. You can't expect the truth from a pathological liar. Okay… I will go right to business. And if you lie again, I will need to hurt you… badly."

"!"

"First question: are the artifacts in the bellow chamber all you have?"

"I don't know what are you talking- ARGH!"

Faster than his eye could perceive, the girl was in front of him. A single punch in his gut and he was knelling in the floor breathing hard.

She grabbed him by the neck and raised her fist.

"Y-YES! IT'S ALL IN THERE! I HAD MORE, BUT I SOLD A YEAR AGO!"

"Good… Now we are talking. I have another question. Was the diary, everything your master left in your custody?"

"YES!"

"Do you know what happened with his belongings after the war?"

"I… heard about some of his goods being sold as dark objects… Any item in particular?"

This seemed to be the right question, as her mouth gave a wide grin.

"I am looking for a ring… It has the symbol of the deathly- the symbol of Grindelwald. The memory Tom Riddle said it was the Gaunt's family ring."

"I don't know about that- UGH!" The girl slapped him hard.

"Don't lie to me!"

"B-but I didn't lie- GAH!" This time she punched him in the face.

"P-please… I don't know!"

"I really wish I could believe in you… But you already proved to be a deceiving bastard… So, lets see if you keep this story after I gouge out one of your eyes." Her razor-sharp look told him she wasn't bluffing.

"W-wait! I told the truth! PLEASE, I AM BEGGING YOU!"

The girl took a red wand and was slowly bringing it to his face…

"WAIT! I think… I know what you are… looking for…" Narcissa Malfoy spoke. Lucius could see her spiting pieces of 'web'.

"… Speak." Degurechaff said, still pointing her wand to Lucius face.

"M-my sister wanted a ring with this description. She was quite disappointed when the dark lord gave her a golden cup for safe keeping instead."

"Where is it now?"

"The dark lord told Bela in passing that he had returned the ring to 'where it belongs'."

"And it means…?"

"I-I don't know… but if I had to guess, I think he hid it in the Gaunt family old shack. It's located close to Little Hangleton."

"…"

Lucius was terror-stricken. His survival depended of the girl believing his wife's story.

"I will check it… And if you are lying, there will be retribution against your ENTIRE family."

"N-no! Not my son too!"

"… Dobby! Do you know how to go to Little Hangleton?"

"Dobby thinks he can take meany fire-girl there."

Looking the girl walking to his former house elf and about to leave, Lucius felt hope that he would survive this encounter after all.

"Oh! And never get in my way again! Next time, I will not be so merciful. And it's unnecessary to say that this conversation never happened…"

With a loud crack, she and Dobby were gone.

"I swear husband! One of this days you are going to be the end of this family! That girl is even more frightening than Bela at her age! I don't know how we are still alive!" Narcissa said.

"… this is how a true dark lord should be."

"Eh?"

"The dark lord would've killed us in a fit… Such educated and powerful little lady is indeed high-born! Even her punches had so much grace and refinement! So… demure!"

"Lucius?!"

He understood now… the dark lord and Grindelwald are both phonies, usurpers. This girl- no, your HIGHNESS is the true ruler they were expecting!

"You want to follow that little girl? Have you lost your mind?!"

"For centuries her family has been waiting for the right moment to take over the world! We need to prove our worth before she becomes a queen- Hell! Even Weasley is already in her good graces!"

She is so powerful! Lucius was still shaking! This is what Severus Snape saw in her… maybe even the Potter boy.

"Maybe there is still time to convince your highness that our Draco is better than Potter! I will owl him latter- no, I will send instructions for him right now!"

And with this, Lucius Malfoy ran towards his owlery.

"J-just a moment- aren't you- Lucius?! LUCIUS COME BACK HERE AND GET ME DOWN!"


"Now… where are you…?"

Just a minute ago, Tanya arrived in the ruins of the Gaunt's old shack, thanks to Dobby.

After saying goodbye to the elf, the girl began her search. However, just by being in front of the house, she could tell how cursed the place was by the permanent flow of 'rotten' mana.

This actually brought a smile to her face. If it had any sort of protection, it means that something valuable was inside.

She didn't waste time and cast a fiendfyre at the ruins. In a matter of seconds, the conjured dragon reduced all the walls to ashes… together with the rotten mana.

"Now… where is it? Fiendfyre can't destroy it… unfortunately."

Tanya walked to the center of the ruins and concentrated all her magic into her sense skill and scanned all directions looking for the faintest signal.

"Came on… come on!" Still, she couldn't find anything…

"Is it somewhere else?" She grabbed her head in frustration.

"Ah…?" Under her own feet she saw a tiny signal.

Tanya immediately broke off the burned boards and there it was… a golden box. With trembling hands she opened it.

"YES!" So much was her happiness that she screamed. Inside the box was the ugly golden ring Tom Riddle had shown her.

Tanya wished to touch it at once, but she remembered Peverell warning her about the curse placed on the ring.

Once again, she cast fiendfyre, only this time, in a small scale, this one took the form of a pup.

Tanya threw the box with the ring and the little fire dog immediately swallowed it. A piercing scream come from the flame pup and it blew away taking its contents, only a black rock was left.

A cold reached her entire being the moment she touched the stone. Forced by a great sadness, the girl bite off her own tongue, her blood flowing in cascades as her life ended…

Tanya fell, her breath labored as the illusion of her suicide faded, the stone in her hand.

"I did it…" Tanya began examining the stone, she was turning it over and over again in her hand just to confirm this was real.

"I DID IT! I FOUND THE SECOND HALLOW!" The little girl beamed.

"WAHHHH! AMAZING! I knew you could do it, lieutenant colonel!"

"Thank you second lieutenant-" Tanya froze. She slowly turned her head and there was… someone that should not be in this world.

"Y-you…?" Tanya couldn't believe her own eyes. Her shock so great that she totally forgot the power of the resurrection stone.

"You… It can't be you! I saw you die… there was nothing left… I… I… I KILLED YOU!"

"Lieutenant colonel Degurechaff, ma'am! Allow me to express how happy I am for seeing you again!"

"… Visha…"

End of Arc 2

AN: And that's it for arc 2 and right on time for the first anniversary of this fanfic. I really hope that before it turns three years old, I will have it finished. I believe that it already reached about one third of the story. But I still don't know how long will be years 3, 4 and 5; years 6 and 7 I plan to make very short.

This year didn't turn out exactly as I wished. For starters, I totally forgot to mention the schoold reaction after Tanya blew up the Whomping Willow! But I will think of something next arc… Next, Luna was supposedly to fall in love with Tanya, that time in the bathroom, Luna would examine Tanya's body looking for the crumpled horn, but Tanya would be scared thinking the girl wished to molest her. I gave up because it would give hints too earlier about Tanya's traumas. Lockhart was also supposedly to try to rape Tanya with Harry showing up in the nick of time, but I thought that this would make Lockhart too OOC. He is a man that loves only himself, so I thought that his only excuse to want Tanya would be to have kids. Beautiful children that he would see as extensions of himself. Also, the princess story was supposedly to be told in the next arc, this would be a crazy theory of professor Flitwick, and it would be spread to the school by Fred and George.

The next month I will be researching and putting together a draft for arc 3. I should update now only in the end of November or maybe December.

I am still putting together a new summary, I will give people time until the next chapter is up…

Next chapter: a new interlude. First we see the past of that other world, my own version of how the war ended. And then we jump back to the future where, once again, Harry's marriage is in danger…

Reviews:

Lubber: Don't be too hard on her, she was under a lot of stress.

EricFreak: If I said now, it would be spoiling. Most of these things will be answered next arc.

Ocansino: Draco and Harry would never be friends during school days… that would be too OOC.

Setokayba2n: It just that McGonagall know how much of an egocentric Lockhart is, she thought weird for him to risk his fame by stalking one girl.

Wedgegeck: Thank you. At the start of arc 3 I may use it.

Guest: Thank you.

RedOuroboros: You are welcome.