A/N: This has taken longer than I thought it would. Sorry!

Disclaimer: I only own the plot, and a couple of other things that make me no money.

Chapter eighteen - Explanations

"Can you start by telling us what you remember Tom?" asked Dumbledore.

After Grindelwald and the Death Eaters had apparated away everyone had wanted explanations, so Dumbledore had invited them up to his office in the hopes that he could shed some light on what was happening.

Voldemort frowned as he tried to remember what had been happening over the past 50 years.

"I can't really remember much after part way through my fifth. I can recall all of the spells I learnt at Hogwarts, but other than that, I can only remember brief moments," he said slowly.

Dumbledore smiled slightly for a second. He had always suspected something had happened then, and now he knew what it was.

"I believe," he said slowly. "I know why you can only remember part of the past 50 years. Now, in Tom here's fifth year at Hogwarts a strange change came over him."

Dumbledore paused here to see how everyone was taking in this information. They all seemed rather shocked, though some more than others.

"Now I believe Tom here was taken over by what is commonly known as the Dark Spirit. It is Morgan Le Faye's evil essence. Have any of you ever wondered why there is only one Dark Lord at a time?"

Most of them stared at him. Yes, they had all wondered that at some point, but they had always passed it off as some fluke or something, never really thinking about it much.

"The reason for this is that in order for a witch or wizard to be become a Dark Lord they must be taken over by this spirit. Usually the person who it takes over is willingly possessed, such as you saw earlier when Grindelwald accepted the spirit into his body, but some times this isn't so."

Dumbledore paused again, waiting to see if anyone had any questions.

"Albus," said Professor Black slowly. "What does this have to do with him?"

Black spat out the last word, directing it towards Voldemort bitterly. As he noticed a couple of glares coming his way he started to look uncomfortable.

"What? He killed my best friend, my best friend's wife and their son!"

Voldemort frowned at that.

"Actually, I only killed your best friend and his wife!" he said angrily.

Suddenly Voldemort found nearly all the eyes in the room upon him. Most of their eyes showed curiosity, though Dumbledore's twinkled, as though he had manage to figure out what had happened to the Potters' only child.

"What do you mean?" asked Black with venom.

"I mean," said Voldemort with an equal amount of dislike in his voice. "That I never killed Harry Potter."

The silence was deafening after he said that. Whilst Ben had already known this, and Dumbledore had pretty much guessed, none of the others had any idea about it.

"What do you mean, you never killed James' son?" asked Remus Lupin, a member of the Order of the Phoenix, suspiciously.

Voldemort sighed, and began his tale of that fateful All Hallows' Eve night.

As he finished everyone in the room looked stunned and he suddenly wondered what had compelled him to say al that.

Ben was the only person in the room who had known any of it, but even he had not known the full-story. He looked a little shocked at all of the news, but none-the-less managed to look about normal. The others though, were a different matter. Blaise and Draco's eyes were wide with shock. They had had no idea about the truth of who their friend was, and this certainly came as a shock to them.

Black looked even more shocked than Blaise and Draco. He obviously was having trouble believing that Harry Potter, even though he had always thought there may have been a chance that he may have been alive, had been raised by the Dark Lord and was perfectly alright. His eyes were even wider than either Blaise's or Draco's, and his mouth was hanging open. It was actually quite a comical sight.

The others in the room appeared to be in varying states of shock. Some just appeared to be mildly surprised by this, whereas others looked nearly as shocked as Black. Well, almost everyone looked shocked at least. Dumbledore had a slight smile on his face.

"Now, if I'm right in saying, Tom, the things you have been able to remember have gotten a lot more frequent ever since that night?" asked Dumbledore.

Voldemort frowned for a second, thinking, then nodded, causing Dumbledore to carry on smiling.

"Yes, that makes sense. I believe that being a father may have taken its toll on the Dark Spirit when it was possessing you, and it was looking for any possible chance to escape from your body and possess another."

Everyone in the room seemed to be trying to process this information. Voldemort wasn't Voldemort, but Tom Riddle who had been possess by some spirit who had been expelled from Riddle's body when he had basically learnt to love and used that love to protect another.

Voldemort - or rather Tom, as we will have to call him now - smiled slightly. That seemed to be exactly what had happened.

A/N: I can't believe I actually finished a fic! I'm so happy! Though this was hard, it was fun. I swear I wrote some everyday, even though it did take me until now to finish. I FINISHED A FIC!!!!!!!!!!!

Goldengirl2: Yeah, he's not evil. He never was. It's just some evil spirity thing that made him like he was. Do you realise that you reviewed with five minutes of me putting that last chapters up? Thanks for your support throughout the fic.

Hermionegreen: You're another person who reviewed within minutes of me putting up that last chapter. Here's the final chapter. Hope you like.

Kaiser Knuckz: So kind, so kind.

SilverKnight7:   I hope this chapter explained it, however subtly. If not it's because the spirit left his body as his body was when he was first inhabited by it.

Rain Warrior: Yeah, I know. Are your eyes better yet? I won? Woohoo! I win! I win! I hope you like this chapter

Muggle: It is? I guess so. I don't think there's too many fics where Voldemort becomes good.

Jaina: It is fun to write. Here's the last chapter.

CR:   Yeah yeah yeah. You don't have to tell me now.

ZeonReborn: I KNOW!!!!!!!!

SycoCallie: Yeah, I did update a lot, didn't? But that's because it's fun! Your alive again? Yay! I updated.

Makya: There wasn't any spell performed on him. But the evil is gone from him. Here's more.

Okay, now about the sequel. I should be able to get the first chapter up in about a week. I don't think it'll be any sooner because I kinda have to write an essay on something or other for Friday. And I have to try and think of a basic storyline for it. Hope you read the sequel! Any reviews for this chapter, or, indeed for this fic, shall be answered in the sequel. Bye!