Harry Potter and the Veil of Mysteries
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters, names, places, or events you recognize from the J.K. Rowling books. If you like any of the original characters or if you get any ideas from the plot, feel free to use them! If you want to let me know that you've used them so I can read up on how you portrayed them, I'd appreciate it! Thanks bunches!
Summary: Harry begins to uncover the truth behind the veil in the Department of Mysteries. The involvement of the mirror Sirius gave him for communication becomes vital to the survival of Harry's relationship with Sirius, and the entire wizarding race as a whole! It all comes down to Nearly Headless Nick and his abilities as a human and as a ghost…and to Voldemort's cunning and logic!
Introduction: This would be when the sixth book takes place, after Sirius died (I cannot BELIEVE she did that! Killing off my favorite character! Ugh!) and this is the summer following his death. A new place is going to be introduced, so if you don't recognize one of the locations from the books J.K. Rowling wrote, that's why!
Chapter One:
Harry Potter had never been more miserable in his entire life. He was completely and utterly alone, with no one to turn to in life. Since his banishment to the muggle world after the death of his godfather, Sirius Black, Harry hadn't heard a single, solitary word from any of his wizard friends. Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger had promised frequent letters to make him feel better about losing the adult he was closest to in the world, but they seemed to be slacking on their duties as best friends.
Harry was sixteen this summer, and would begin his sixth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry on September first. Now, though, it was barely the beginning of July and he still had two whole months of exile into the non-magic world before he could return his school, his friends, and his life. He couldn't stop thinking about the night that had occurred at the end of his school year, and the night that had changed his life forever. Since then, new and confusing dreams had plagued his never-peaceful sleep.
In the dream, Harry was walking down a now completely familiar corridor in the Department of Mysteries at the Ministry of Magic. That had been the place where Harry had thought Sirius to be imprisoned, and so he had set out to save his godfather and ended up being the cause of his death, instead. In this dream, though, Harry didn't continue on to any of the rooms in the labyrinth that made up the Department of Mysteries. Instead, he stopped before he reached the most complex part of the maze and stared fixedly at a tattered, black veil hanging from an archway where ghostly whispers echoed. Luna Lovegood claimed spirits lived behind the veil, but Harry knew nothing of it other than what Luna (sometimes called Looney Lovegood) had told him.
Hermione Granger, one of Harry's two best friends at Hogwarts, would surely look up the veil in a heartbeat to tell Harry anything he wanted to know. Hermione was the school brain and always had her nose in a book. Ron Weasley, Harry's other best friend, had a father who worked for the Ministry of Magic and would probably know about the veil from word of mouth. Those who worked in the Department of Mysteries, otherwise called Unspeakables, weren't permitted to talk about anything regarding their jobs, but nevertheless, word got around about things in the Department of Mysteries, especially after the episode with the escaped Death Eaters, Lord Voldemort, and Harry Potter had taken place in June. However, Harry hadn't spoken to either of his best friends since descending from the Hogwarts Express on the last day of the school term.
"Boy!" Uncle Vernon shouted, jerking Harry down from his clouds of thoughts. "Damn owls! What have I told you about the owls? You have Miss Number Seven looking at Petunia and I all funny through her monocle!"
"Sorry, Uncle Vernon." Harry sighed, and retrieved his snowy owl, Hedwig, from his uncle's angry clutches. She'd been out hunting and had returned with a beak full of frog and a letter tied to her leg. Harry untied the letter as fast as his somewhat clumsy fingers would allow him to, and then stood stock still as he recognized the handwriting. It belonged to Sirius.
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters, names, places, or events you recognize from the J.K. Rowling books. If you like any of the original characters or if you get any ideas from the plot, feel free to use them! If you want to let me know that you've used them so I can read up on how you portrayed them, I'd appreciate it! Thanks bunches!
Summary: Harry begins to uncover the truth behind the veil in the Department of Mysteries. The involvement of the mirror Sirius gave him for communication becomes vital to the survival of Harry's relationship with Sirius, and the entire wizarding race as a whole! It all comes down to Nearly Headless Nick and his abilities as a human and as a ghost…and to Voldemort's cunning and logic!
Introduction: This would be when the sixth book takes place, after Sirius died (I cannot BELIEVE she did that! Killing off my favorite character! Ugh!) and this is the summer following his death. A new place is going to be introduced, so if you don't recognize one of the locations from the books J.K. Rowling wrote, that's why!
Chapter One:
Harry Potter had never been more miserable in his entire life. He was completely and utterly alone, with no one to turn to in life. Since his banishment to the muggle world after the death of his godfather, Sirius Black, Harry hadn't heard a single, solitary word from any of his wizard friends. Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger had promised frequent letters to make him feel better about losing the adult he was closest to in the world, but they seemed to be slacking on their duties as best friends.
Harry was sixteen this summer, and would begin his sixth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry on September first. Now, though, it was barely the beginning of July and he still had two whole months of exile into the non-magic world before he could return his school, his friends, and his life. He couldn't stop thinking about the night that had occurred at the end of his school year, and the night that had changed his life forever. Since then, new and confusing dreams had plagued his never-peaceful sleep.
In the dream, Harry was walking down a now completely familiar corridor in the Department of Mysteries at the Ministry of Magic. That had been the place where Harry had thought Sirius to be imprisoned, and so he had set out to save his godfather and ended up being the cause of his death, instead. In this dream, though, Harry didn't continue on to any of the rooms in the labyrinth that made up the Department of Mysteries. Instead, he stopped before he reached the most complex part of the maze and stared fixedly at a tattered, black veil hanging from an archway where ghostly whispers echoed. Luna Lovegood claimed spirits lived behind the veil, but Harry knew nothing of it other than what Luna (sometimes called Looney Lovegood) had told him.
Hermione Granger, one of Harry's two best friends at Hogwarts, would surely look up the veil in a heartbeat to tell Harry anything he wanted to know. Hermione was the school brain and always had her nose in a book. Ron Weasley, Harry's other best friend, had a father who worked for the Ministry of Magic and would probably know about the veil from word of mouth. Those who worked in the Department of Mysteries, otherwise called Unspeakables, weren't permitted to talk about anything regarding their jobs, but nevertheless, word got around about things in the Department of Mysteries, especially after the episode with the escaped Death Eaters, Lord Voldemort, and Harry Potter had taken place in June. However, Harry hadn't spoken to either of his best friends since descending from the Hogwarts Express on the last day of the school term.
"Boy!" Uncle Vernon shouted, jerking Harry down from his clouds of thoughts. "Damn owls! What have I told you about the owls? You have Miss Number Seven looking at Petunia and I all funny through her monocle!"
"Sorry, Uncle Vernon." Harry sighed, and retrieved his snowy owl, Hedwig, from his uncle's angry clutches. She'd been out hunting and had returned with a beak full of frog and a letter tied to her leg. Harry untied the letter as fast as his somewhat clumsy fingers would allow him to, and then stood stock still as he recognized the handwriting. It belonged to Sirius.