Chapter 9
What's wrong with the World
Harry was locked in a cupboard he looked around him self.
Then realization hit him. He was in the cardboard under the stairs at his uncles and ants house.
There was some loud sounding steeps coming from the second floor and down the stairs.
Harry shock with fear he knew what would be coming.
The door slammed open to reveal his gigantic uncal, Harry pressed him self further into the cupboard.
His uncle's small dark eyes turned red and he reached into the cupboard and dragged Harry out.
Harry found that he could not move.
This brought him the realisation that this was only a dream.
He willed himself to awaken but to no avail.
His Uncle had just slammed him against the wall when the front door blew open to reveal a man in a dark clock.
Harry felt terror ripe through his body could this be a death eater?
The death eater took out his wand and pointing it at Harry's uncal and sent him flying down the hall.
Harry slid to the floor and looked up at the face of the supposed death eater who had just removed his hood to reveal, Sirus.
Harry bounded up and went to reach for the arms of his long lost Godfather.
To find that at his touch Sirus began screaming, Harry steeped back in shock to find his Godfather burning to death in from of him.
Harry tried to move for his wand but found he could no longer move at all.
He wanted to close his eyes to block what was happening out.
He wanted to awaken he needed to.
The last of Sirus's body was melting away before him his blood was boiling into the carpet.
Harry found him self needing to scream but couldn't.
Then another form made his way into the room also a hooded figure this one how ever waited not a second to reveal him self.
And when Harry saw the snake like evil man he felt nothing but fear he couldn't defend him self he couldn't move.
He herd the death curse and saw the green light flying towards him, he felt the pain.
Harry awoke suddenly and sat up he was still shacking, and his body was in a cold sweat.
He gazed around the darkness in confusion for a moment before he remembered what had happened.
He collapsed back on to the bed and closed his eyes.
The morning brought no comfort to any one in the shrieking shack. It felt no different that the night.
Harry sat silently trying to figure out why this was while the others continued on like every thing was the way it was meant to be.
But not to Harry to Harry every thing was wrong.
He looked around for the others to find them no were.
After making his way down stairs he found them whispering around a table.
He coughed to let them know that he was there.
They immediately stoped there conversation and turned to greet him.
He joined them at the table; there was an uncomfortable silence for a moment.
Then the older wizard who had insisted that Harry call him Calen spoke. "I think the best thing to do at the moment is to assess how ready you are to face Malfoy" he said.
Harry raised his eye brows "I'm ready" he said simply.
Mat and Calen looked at each other in agreed doubtfulness. "He's very powerful, no one in the world at this moment could defeat him other than perhaps you. If we lost you so early on then there will be nothing and no one that could stop him, we cant allow that to happen" Calen said
"Yes, millions of lives rest on you and I'm not going to let you get killed for nothing" Mat agreed.
Harry stared at the to of them for a moment then at that moment he said in an authoritative voice that no one dared ague with "I have defeated Voldemort, and now I will do the same to Malfoy"
Mat and Calen looked at him in surprise his green eyes flashed power and they dared not ague.
Harry was surprised it worked on Calen it would not have worked on Albus but then again he felt that Albus was a lot more powerful than Calen and Albus had raised him so the Authority had a tendency to go the other way from this.
"Where is this Malfoy I want to get this over with?" he said while crossing his arms a cross his chest and leaning against the wall.
Mat and Calen glanced at each other. "Hes in his castle, Azkaban" Calen said.
Harry's head snapped up "Azkaban, some things never change" he said "I know were that is"
"You can't get in with out the dark mark.. There is very strong magic placed there by Voldemort himself" Calen said seriously
"Voldemort could not stop me when he was alive let alone now that he is dead. Any way who said I didn't have the dark mark"
Harry carefully rolled up his sleeve to reveal the dark mark clearly on his arm.
The other to occupants just sat in silence none had expected this.
"You're a death eater" Mats voice was filled with hate.
Harry stared at him "because I have been branded with there mark does not mean I have been branded with there beliefs. I am not a death eater, never have been, and I never will be"
"But then why do you have the mark?" Calen asked trying to make sense of the new situation.
"That is irrelevant to the current situation; this mark may just prove to be very useful though. Is Hogwarts still standing?" he asked hoping against hope that the old building had lasted all then years of darkness
"Yes. that's the order of the Phoenix's head office, but as you know the leading ring has turned the order can no longer be trusted" Cullen said
"If only the leaders have turned then why do you say the whole Order can no longer be trusted as I assure you this is a grouse misjudgement. I think we have a plan. we will form a revolt at the order and form its new leadership. We will then have an army which can fight the death eaters. Even with Malfoy gone we will need to stop them also if there is to ever be peace. prepare your selves we leave in 10 minutes" Harry then turned and left back up the stairs.
Cullen and mat looked at one another in silence for a moment.
"Do you think he can be trusted" Mat finally asked.
"I don't know. he could have his own a genders for the Order. I think it is in our best interests to keep an eye on him. We may of just brought a new dark wizard into this world one more powerful than ever before. the Legend of a powerful light wizard with the power to destroy all darkness may have been just that, a Legend. We may have risked our lives to bring the worlds doom rather than freedom"
Harry returned back down the stairs to find the other 2 deep in conversation which abruptly stoped when his presence was noticed.
Mat eyed Harry for a moment "just how are you intending to get into Hogwarts?"
"How are we. We will be going through the secret tunnel which leads right onto Hogwarts grounds that just so happens to start directly underneath the floor we stand"
Harry then strolled arouse the old wooden surface and lifted up some old floor boards.
Again this coursed him to receive surprised stares.
Once Harry had disappeared down under the floor they both quickly joined him down the tunnel.
Harry leaped down and landed on the dirt below.
It was pitch black so he wandlsly created a fire ball that stayed a few meters ahead lighting the way.
He turned to wait for the others, which were not far behind.
The light was a bright blue and the expressions on their faces once they had seen as the gazed directly at the fire and found it did not heart there eyes.
Harry turned and began the journey before they had a chance to speak.
"How did you know that this was there.? I am an order official, our family has been in the order for hundreds of years and we knew nothing of it" Culen asked Harry as he came up beside him.
"Your family did once know, it seems a lot of things have just been forgotten, and I know because I have or in my current situation more had a map handed down to me by my father of all of Hogwarts, secret passages and all". That seemed to satisfy the older man.
Mat watched Harry Potter from the corner of his eye.
This boy younger than he could mean to things for them either the saving of their entire world of the final destruction, which he feared, would be to great to reverse.
How could it be that the fate of the world of every life in it, how could it come down to this boy, 'the boy who lived' if that was even true.
Did this boy even know the power he held in his hands, that in a single decision they would either receive there freedom and rebuild there world or, well he didn't want to even think of it.
The problem of corse came down to knowing which road the young boy had taken.
If it did tern out that the boy was evil he would not hesitate to attempt to destroy him.
Weather or not he succeeded or weather or not his life was worth sacrificing could not even be considered in this equation, not with what was in stake.
"What is the world like in your time, when it all began? Could people tell that the Malfoys were going to take over, and what did they do to try and prevent it?"
The question did not surprise Harry he had been half expecting it.
He would want to know as well if he was him for he had been pondering this very same thing, when exactly did things become so bad that things would come to this.
"The Malfoys, as much as I hate to say it were something the wiziding world at that time didn't think needed to be that worried about"
Harry found him self unable to continue when he was cut of by Mat
"Did wizards have there own separate world?"
Harry stopped and turned and looked at Mat then Culen.
How much had been lost? The world could not go back to the way it was, not for a very long time any way.
"Back in my time there is only one world, which is the same one that is here now but society was different, the wizards and muggles lived separately. Muggles didn't even know that wizards existed or of the existence of an inter world of wizards living side by side to there own, it was a hidden would back then and great caution was made to keep it that way. But as I was previously saying in my time the world was still in uproar calibrating the fall of Voldemort. Many were dead, not one wizard had been left unaffected in some dramatic way, thousands of muggles were dead but they had managed the truth of their deaths to the muggle world. It was a dark time when no one could trust even there closest friends or family. Brothers betrayed brothers, parents handed their own children over to be slaughtered in order to save the rest of there family and brain washed children at times didn't even blink before murdering there own parents. And with the down fall of Voldemort and the end to years of war in a struggle for the future of the wiziding world who could even comprehend that another would rise to take his place. People didn't want to believe it, who would after all we had been through to only have to face it again. The ministry of magic denied that a death eater from Voldemorts inner circle, his right hand man to be exact had taken control of the death eaters in a fight to not only take the world but to find a way to restore Voldemort, this is the part which the 'Order of the Phoenix' feared the most. Even now in your time it may be possible, how I don't know, truthfully I don't want to know what ever way that evil bastard uses to come back is just that pure evil. Lets just hope that it's not possible, the problem is that were ever I go trouble is soon to follow. Any way with a ministry lead by a man named fudge in denial and a people who just wanted to celebrate Voldemorts and forget what they had seen and all that had happened it became very easy for him to inconspicuously gain power. It was denied until the day when he took Azkaban. By then they had secretly been gaining supporters and had an army. With it becoming public all of Voldemorts old supporters flocked to him. Not only that but he had corrupted the ministry itself from the inside out before Voldemorts downfall. But not even I could see it coming to this, the Malfoy family was a powerful family, but there were plenty of powerful wizards around and plenty that could have possibly defeated him. But he had learned a lot of Voldemort he knew he didn't have enough power in that way so he tried making up for it in different ways. But as I say, not even I could see it coming to this, I mean with out Malfoy they would have been leaderless and have fallen apart. I can't really tell you any more it was about this time that I ended up in that stinken box. I wish I could go back and change it, the Dueslys certainly aren't worth all of this"
a smile crept over his face and he imagined Albuses words 'how can you determine the worth of a life, is it by there money, the number of people who will miss them, there age, there kindness, how wise they are, the experience they have or there knowledge? Can any one of us actually make a decision like that; can the worth of a human life really be measured?'
Mat didn't know what to think about what Harry had said, could it be possible, that the world was like this because they didn't want to believe that it was happening, because they had decided to ignore what was happening.
Mat wished he could go back and knock some sense into that minister Fudge, it was because of this refusal to accept the truth that lead to the death of his entire family.
He was alone because of this, but then how could he know what would have happened if things had been done differently.
Maybe if Harry hadn't gone to rescue his Aunt and Uncle Things would be different, but then again the same thing applied really.
Culen decided a series of silly mistakes had lead to the down fall of not only the wiziding world but the whole world.
Further more he was still struggling to come to a conclusion about one Harry Potter, foe or friend.
Sorry it took me so long to get this next chapter written but my computer blew up I'm talking smoke and every thing. So any way here it is, hopefully my computer will be up and running soon so I will be able to write more frequently. I would also like to thank for all of your reviews and support I would not have gotten very far with out it. I wasn't expecting any one to review and your continuous reviews have really helped.
Harry was locked in a cupboard he looked around him self.
Then realization hit him. He was in the cardboard under the stairs at his uncles and ants house.
There was some loud sounding steeps coming from the second floor and down the stairs.
Harry shock with fear he knew what would be coming.
The door slammed open to reveal his gigantic uncal, Harry pressed him self further into the cupboard.
His uncle's small dark eyes turned red and he reached into the cupboard and dragged Harry out.
Harry found that he could not move.
This brought him the realisation that this was only a dream.
He willed himself to awaken but to no avail.
His Uncle had just slammed him against the wall when the front door blew open to reveal a man in a dark clock.
Harry felt terror ripe through his body could this be a death eater?
The death eater took out his wand and pointing it at Harry's uncal and sent him flying down the hall.
Harry slid to the floor and looked up at the face of the supposed death eater who had just removed his hood to reveal, Sirus.
Harry bounded up and went to reach for the arms of his long lost Godfather.
To find that at his touch Sirus began screaming, Harry steeped back in shock to find his Godfather burning to death in from of him.
Harry tried to move for his wand but found he could no longer move at all.
He wanted to close his eyes to block what was happening out.
He wanted to awaken he needed to.
The last of Sirus's body was melting away before him his blood was boiling into the carpet.
Harry found him self needing to scream but couldn't.
Then another form made his way into the room also a hooded figure this one how ever waited not a second to reveal him self.
And when Harry saw the snake like evil man he felt nothing but fear he couldn't defend him self he couldn't move.
He herd the death curse and saw the green light flying towards him, he felt the pain.
Harry awoke suddenly and sat up he was still shacking, and his body was in a cold sweat.
He gazed around the darkness in confusion for a moment before he remembered what had happened.
He collapsed back on to the bed and closed his eyes.
The morning brought no comfort to any one in the shrieking shack. It felt no different that the night.
Harry sat silently trying to figure out why this was while the others continued on like every thing was the way it was meant to be.
But not to Harry to Harry every thing was wrong.
He looked around for the others to find them no were.
After making his way down stairs he found them whispering around a table.
He coughed to let them know that he was there.
They immediately stoped there conversation and turned to greet him.
He joined them at the table; there was an uncomfortable silence for a moment.
Then the older wizard who had insisted that Harry call him Calen spoke. "I think the best thing to do at the moment is to assess how ready you are to face Malfoy" he said.
Harry raised his eye brows "I'm ready" he said simply.
Mat and Calen looked at each other in agreed doubtfulness. "He's very powerful, no one in the world at this moment could defeat him other than perhaps you. If we lost you so early on then there will be nothing and no one that could stop him, we cant allow that to happen" Calen said
"Yes, millions of lives rest on you and I'm not going to let you get killed for nothing" Mat agreed.
Harry stared at the to of them for a moment then at that moment he said in an authoritative voice that no one dared ague with "I have defeated Voldemort, and now I will do the same to Malfoy"
Mat and Calen looked at him in surprise his green eyes flashed power and they dared not ague.
Harry was surprised it worked on Calen it would not have worked on Albus but then again he felt that Albus was a lot more powerful than Calen and Albus had raised him so the Authority had a tendency to go the other way from this.
"Where is this Malfoy I want to get this over with?" he said while crossing his arms a cross his chest and leaning against the wall.
Mat and Calen glanced at each other. "Hes in his castle, Azkaban" Calen said.
Harry's head snapped up "Azkaban, some things never change" he said "I know were that is"
"You can't get in with out the dark mark.. There is very strong magic placed there by Voldemort himself" Calen said seriously
"Voldemort could not stop me when he was alive let alone now that he is dead. Any way who said I didn't have the dark mark"
Harry carefully rolled up his sleeve to reveal the dark mark clearly on his arm.
The other to occupants just sat in silence none had expected this.
"You're a death eater" Mats voice was filled with hate.
Harry stared at him "because I have been branded with there mark does not mean I have been branded with there beliefs. I am not a death eater, never have been, and I never will be"
"But then why do you have the mark?" Calen asked trying to make sense of the new situation.
"That is irrelevant to the current situation; this mark may just prove to be very useful though. Is Hogwarts still standing?" he asked hoping against hope that the old building had lasted all then years of darkness
"Yes. that's the order of the Phoenix's head office, but as you know the leading ring has turned the order can no longer be trusted" Cullen said
"If only the leaders have turned then why do you say the whole Order can no longer be trusted as I assure you this is a grouse misjudgement. I think we have a plan. we will form a revolt at the order and form its new leadership. We will then have an army which can fight the death eaters. Even with Malfoy gone we will need to stop them also if there is to ever be peace. prepare your selves we leave in 10 minutes" Harry then turned and left back up the stairs.
Cullen and mat looked at one another in silence for a moment.
"Do you think he can be trusted" Mat finally asked.
"I don't know. he could have his own a genders for the Order. I think it is in our best interests to keep an eye on him. We may of just brought a new dark wizard into this world one more powerful than ever before. the Legend of a powerful light wizard with the power to destroy all darkness may have been just that, a Legend. We may have risked our lives to bring the worlds doom rather than freedom"
Harry returned back down the stairs to find the other 2 deep in conversation which abruptly stoped when his presence was noticed.
Mat eyed Harry for a moment "just how are you intending to get into Hogwarts?"
"How are we. We will be going through the secret tunnel which leads right onto Hogwarts grounds that just so happens to start directly underneath the floor we stand"
Harry then strolled arouse the old wooden surface and lifted up some old floor boards.
Again this coursed him to receive surprised stares.
Once Harry had disappeared down under the floor they both quickly joined him down the tunnel.
Harry leaped down and landed on the dirt below.
It was pitch black so he wandlsly created a fire ball that stayed a few meters ahead lighting the way.
He turned to wait for the others, which were not far behind.
The light was a bright blue and the expressions on their faces once they had seen as the gazed directly at the fire and found it did not heart there eyes.
Harry turned and began the journey before they had a chance to speak.
"How did you know that this was there.? I am an order official, our family has been in the order for hundreds of years and we knew nothing of it" Culen asked Harry as he came up beside him.
"Your family did once know, it seems a lot of things have just been forgotten, and I know because I have or in my current situation more had a map handed down to me by my father of all of Hogwarts, secret passages and all". That seemed to satisfy the older man.
Mat watched Harry Potter from the corner of his eye.
This boy younger than he could mean to things for them either the saving of their entire world of the final destruction, which he feared, would be to great to reverse.
How could it be that the fate of the world of every life in it, how could it come down to this boy, 'the boy who lived' if that was even true.
Did this boy even know the power he held in his hands, that in a single decision they would either receive there freedom and rebuild there world or, well he didn't want to even think of it.
The problem of corse came down to knowing which road the young boy had taken.
If it did tern out that the boy was evil he would not hesitate to attempt to destroy him.
Weather or not he succeeded or weather or not his life was worth sacrificing could not even be considered in this equation, not with what was in stake.
"What is the world like in your time, when it all began? Could people tell that the Malfoys were going to take over, and what did they do to try and prevent it?"
The question did not surprise Harry he had been half expecting it.
He would want to know as well if he was him for he had been pondering this very same thing, when exactly did things become so bad that things would come to this.
"The Malfoys, as much as I hate to say it were something the wiziding world at that time didn't think needed to be that worried about"
Harry found him self unable to continue when he was cut of by Mat
"Did wizards have there own separate world?"
Harry stopped and turned and looked at Mat then Culen.
How much had been lost? The world could not go back to the way it was, not for a very long time any way.
"Back in my time there is only one world, which is the same one that is here now but society was different, the wizards and muggles lived separately. Muggles didn't even know that wizards existed or of the existence of an inter world of wizards living side by side to there own, it was a hidden would back then and great caution was made to keep it that way. But as I was previously saying in my time the world was still in uproar calibrating the fall of Voldemort. Many were dead, not one wizard had been left unaffected in some dramatic way, thousands of muggles were dead but they had managed the truth of their deaths to the muggle world. It was a dark time when no one could trust even there closest friends or family. Brothers betrayed brothers, parents handed their own children over to be slaughtered in order to save the rest of there family and brain washed children at times didn't even blink before murdering there own parents. And with the down fall of Voldemort and the end to years of war in a struggle for the future of the wiziding world who could even comprehend that another would rise to take his place. People didn't want to believe it, who would after all we had been through to only have to face it again. The ministry of magic denied that a death eater from Voldemorts inner circle, his right hand man to be exact had taken control of the death eaters in a fight to not only take the world but to find a way to restore Voldemort, this is the part which the 'Order of the Phoenix' feared the most. Even now in your time it may be possible, how I don't know, truthfully I don't want to know what ever way that evil bastard uses to come back is just that pure evil. Lets just hope that it's not possible, the problem is that were ever I go trouble is soon to follow. Any way with a ministry lead by a man named fudge in denial and a people who just wanted to celebrate Voldemorts and forget what they had seen and all that had happened it became very easy for him to inconspicuously gain power. It was denied until the day when he took Azkaban. By then they had secretly been gaining supporters and had an army. With it becoming public all of Voldemorts old supporters flocked to him. Not only that but he had corrupted the ministry itself from the inside out before Voldemorts downfall. But not even I could see it coming to this, the Malfoy family was a powerful family, but there were plenty of powerful wizards around and plenty that could have possibly defeated him. But he had learned a lot of Voldemort he knew he didn't have enough power in that way so he tried making up for it in different ways. But as I say, not even I could see it coming to this, I mean with out Malfoy they would have been leaderless and have fallen apart. I can't really tell you any more it was about this time that I ended up in that stinken box. I wish I could go back and change it, the Dueslys certainly aren't worth all of this"
a smile crept over his face and he imagined Albuses words 'how can you determine the worth of a life, is it by there money, the number of people who will miss them, there age, there kindness, how wise they are, the experience they have or there knowledge? Can any one of us actually make a decision like that; can the worth of a human life really be measured?'
Mat didn't know what to think about what Harry had said, could it be possible, that the world was like this because they didn't want to believe that it was happening, because they had decided to ignore what was happening.
Mat wished he could go back and knock some sense into that minister Fudge, it was because of this refusal to accept the truth that lead to the death of his entire family.
He was alone because of this, but then how could he know what would have happened if things had been done differently.
Maybe if Harry hadn't gone to rescue his Aunt and Uncle Things would be different, but then again the same thing applied really.
Culen decided a series of silly mistakes had lead to the down fall of not only the wiziding world but the whole world.
Further more he was still struggling to come to a conclusion about one Harry Potter, foe or friend.
Sorry it took me so long to get this next chapter written but my computer blew up I'm talking smoke and every thing. So any way here it is, hopefully my computer will be up and running soon so I will be able to write more frequently. I would also like to thank for all of your reviews and support I would not have gotten very far with out it. I wasn't expecting any one to review and your continuous reviews have really helped.