Chapter 4: The Green Flamed Torch
Enemar raised Harry's wand pointed it to Harry's chest and yelled in a booming voice
"AVADA KEDAVRA."
The two words were all two familiar to Harry .He closed tried to move as soon as he heard the man start on the killing curse but he could not some invisible force tied him to his position.
As the curse was uttered he braced himself. So this is how it ends he thought expecting to hear the sound of rushing death riding upon the eerie green light. But he realized nothing has happened. There was no green light coming out of his wand there was no sound of approaching death .His wand remained passive at Enemar's wand as if it was just a twig. The dreaded killing curse had failed.
Elsewhere, Albus Dumbledore was not a man who would get tense easily. Even now he was not tense he was scared.Harry had entered the floo powder just before him.He had heard Harry say the destination correctly but yet inexplicably he had not reached the destination. The aged wizard with more experience than anyone in the wizarding world was baffled. His only solace laid in the fact that if Harry was indeed abducted as he feared if he was hurt or injured he could feel it and probably locate him. Dumbledore only hoped that this magical bond that he had established with Harry enabled him to save Harry before it was too late.
"What just happened?" said Enemar "is not the killing curse supposed to kill you.How could this be? Tell me Harry what power saved you this time. Your mother is not here to have saved you. As Dumbledore told you I have killed before using this very curse then what went wrong just now. Why wont..." he raised the wand again and said "AVADA KEDAVRA" still nothing happened, "why won't it work on you."
Then his face broke into a smile. "You have already guessed an answer but it is wrong it has nothing to do with the wand, Harry browse your own memory and think did Peter Pettigrew not kill Cedric Diggory with the dark Lords wand. The truth is Harry I can not perform a killing curse not this one at least. I am not a wizard as known to in your world." ============================================================================ ==================================================
Dumbledore was pacing about in the hall of Grimmauld Place. He had sent the entire Order to look for Harry. Professor Snape had contacted him a few moments ago confirming that there was a death eater meeting for the past one hour and hence Voldemort was not responsible for Harry's abduction. That could leave just one person. Enemar.
Suddenly the fire place across the hall started crackling and from it appeared the face of the young wizard he was just thinking about.
"Good afternoon Professor Dumbledore, sorry to have alarmed you but you see there are things that are necessary even if they are to be done in a wrong way."
"Where is Harry? What have you done to him?" asked Dumbledore.
"Relax Sir.Mr Potter is perfectly safe.Please step into the fire it will take you to him."
The Weasley family and Hermione had just entered the hall. "Don't Sir" yelled Ron Weasley, "this is a trap.If you think you should go take us with you."
"Ah, Ron Weasley, you are going to be the bodyguard of Albus Dumbledore, I would be delighted to host the great Weasley family as well but not right now.Dumbledore my offer is for you only please step into the fire Mr.Potter is waiting." said Enemar.
"Its ok Ron, I think we should do what he says as long as he has Harry" saying this Dumbledore stepped into the fire. He realized he was in a room that was very familiar. Had it not been extremely clean and tidy he would have thought...
"That's right you are in the 'most haunted house in Britain' the Shrieking Shack" came the voice of Enemar as he stepped in through the door.
Dumbledore immediately raised his wand, "where is Harry" he demanded. Enemar said nothing but gestured him to follow and left the room. Downstairs in the hall sitting quietly busy reading a book was Harry Potter.
"Harry are you alright." asked the concerned headmaster. Harry nodded in affirmation.
"You see as I had promised your 'boy who lived' and still very capable of fighting your battles. I had thought I would give my explanations only to Harry, but then realized that with our little misunderstanding sooner or later we are bound to have a confrontation and since no prophecy ever said I have to be killed by a teen I would die a dogs death in your hand.Well that is not acceptable to be." said Enemar grinning.
"Now before you act all hostile towards me let me show you some thing look at the screen behind you."
Dumbledore looked at a large white screen which replayed Enemar failing to use the unforgivable curse on Harry.
"But how?" said Dumbledore.
"Please have a seat Professor, Harry and you both deserve answers and you will get them but let me at least offer some refreshments."
"Enough of this mock courtesy" finally yelled Harry.
"You told me to wait here till the headmaster arrived and he has, now tell us what is going on."
"Oh well. Can't say I was a bad host." said Enemar, "Let me first start with with happened at Indus."
"Professor you are correct Indus is not an ordinary monastery. As I have already told Harry I am not a wizard but I am not an ordinary muggle either. The people at Indus had a gift. We could boast that we probably have the most gifted and powerful mind in the world. The residents of Indus had psychic abilities. Not those about predicting future. But with proper concentration we could perform quiet a decent bit of what you call magic without wands or incantation. This ability came to us via our mind and our heart. I know you professor are slightly aware of this ability as this is what is known in your world as ancient magic."
Dumbledore's eyes narrowed in comprehension.
"Indeed, this is ancient magic; a very raw powerful and yet limited form of magic. At least it was limited till three people came into the scenario." said Enemar his face grave.
"Aradha was the greatest exponent of our abilities that I had met. The Indus to my knowledge is the only shelter for people of our kind, but people of our kind are rare a lot more rare than even wizards. The Indus had just 39 people capable of performing ancient magic there were others before us but most died due to age. We live in secrecy as we learn our abilities and then return to the muggle world to live like an ordinary human being. This gift is forbidden to be exploited except in necessity."
"There is however one thing funny, much like you not many of us knew of the wizarding race either. In fact to my knowledge there were only two people who came to know of each others existence. One of them was Aradha. The other person is the reason I thought you would be interested in hearing me out."
"Who is it?" asked Harry.
"He is known and feared by a lot of names but I do not fear him.He is Tom Marlvoro Riddle. Lord Voldemort."
Harry gasped. "Does this mean he has these abilities too." he asked.
"Thanks to the heavens no. How he came to know of us is a mystery. Aradha never told me how he knew of the wizarding world. He was not a wizard either. Let me tell you somethings about my victim Aradha first that might show some light. Aradha to tell you the truth found me. I was a normal boy in college without much idea about my abilities when he arrived at my doorstep. He explained my gift. That is the only way to describe it.I accompanied him to Indus. To my delight Reet also seemed to possess this gift and he too joined us. Reet and I are old school friends."
"During our training in Indus we learnt a few things about our kind. We also learnt a few things that were not supposed to be told. When we arrived at Indus we were told Aradha was the only person who was able to bend the limitations of ancient magic. But he could do it only slightly. Because of this he considered himself superior to most of us. In the last stages of our training, Reet displayed abilities similar to that of Aradha. Aradha promised he would guide Reet to harness his abilities. But by then I had been able to guess Aradha wanted to subdue him. Now the story comes to me. Reet by accident displayed the full range of his abilities to Aradha. I however had learnt my potential long before Reet did. You might think I am boasting but its true that my abilities in ancient magic exceeded that of both Reet and Aradha. But I kept it a secret from Aradha. Reet being like my brother knew. I told him I would let everyone know when I felt comfortable. He respected that. I still did not have any idea about your world ye bit that changed two weeks ago."
"I know you take pride in your organisation but its espionage abilities leave a lot to be desired. You claim that Voldemort tried to enter Indus. That is wrong. He was in Indus for 3 days."
"When your ministry finally confirmed his return, Voldemort decided to bide his time and left England. He had somehow learnt of Indus and approached Aradha to assist him. He was greatly weakened by his encounter with Harry when Harry foiled his attempts to possess him. He was accompanied by Bellatrix Lestrange. Aradha was actually considering Voldemorts offer as he baited him with more power. He welcomed Voldemort to stay at Indus. Reet and I did not like this. We protested saying that our people should not be involved in these matters. What I did not know was that snakes abilities to read minds using legilimency. He tried to read my mind but failed, he however realized that my powers exceeded Aradha. So he tried to get me to his side I refused. He manipulated Aradha into throwing me out of Indus. He then tried to force Reet to join him. He too refused. Aradha by then had made up his mind to join Voldemort he told Reet those in Indus who did not join Voldemort will be killed. Reet reluctantly agreed fearing for the lives of others at Indus. He secretly fed information to me about Voldemort. Through him I was able to access Voldemorts plans. On the 3rd day of Voldemorts stay I found his true purpose of coming to Asia.
I made up my mind I had to stop him for the greater good.I decided to attack Voldemort at Indus."
"What exactly were Voldemorts plans?" asked Dumbledore.
"He had found out a secret through Aradha that even I did not know.It is the only link between the Indus cult and the wizarding world,-The Green Flame Torch."
"But that is a myth, it was stated in Merlin's journals that there might be such an object which will give one absolute control over Ancient Magic giving him power greater than any wizard or magi alive.But even he did not find it nor did anyone else." said Dumbledore.
"Your description of the Green Flame Torch is quite similar to what Voldemort thinks it is, however I think it is quite different, although what I think hardly matters as Aradha claimed he knew a method to locate the Green Flame Torch. I could not let him lead that snake to the power of immortals so I attacked Indus."
"I had to do a lot of damage to the monastery to enter the sacred path to Mohenjodaro at the chamber of death. That is where you found Aradha's body. I had tried to acquire as much knowledge about wizards as I could but in combat with Voldemort I was greatly unsuccessful. He managed to restrain me using what you call unforgivables. He was about to kill me, when I used my most potent weapon. I entered Aradha's mind and took over his body I forced him to attack Voldemort. Voldemort was so shocked that Aradha had turned sides he killed him using Avada Kedavra. The blame obviously came upon me as Voldemort disapparated. No one other than me and Reet knew Voldemort had entered Indus. But most of the cult had seen me break into Indus. I knew people would investigate this. I told Reet to act ignorant of what happened. First came a group from the ministry of magic. Then came your people from the order of Phoenix. From each of their minds I was able to extract information about your world but I knew I was at the tip of the Iceberg. From the mind of Remus Lupin I gained more details than I could about Hogwarts, Hogsmede and this place. Then I managed to befuddle them into thinking they had no information. I had come to know enough about you Professor Dumbledore that I was sure if I made matters illusive enough you would come to Indus. While you were away, I entered Hogwarts and the castle provided me with all details that I needed. Lastly it gave me the name of the one person who can and will assist me in my quest to protect the Green Flame Torch."
"Who?" asked Dumbledore.
"You already know professor.He is my first guest, none other than 'the boy who lived' Harry James Potter."
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Enemar raised Harry's wand pointed it to Harry's chest and yelled in a booming voice
"AVADA KEDAVRA."
The two words were all two familiar to Harry .He closed tried to move as soon as he heard the man start on the killing curse but he could not some invisible force tied him to his position.
As the curse was uttered he braced himself. So this is how it ends he thought expecting to hear the sound of rushing death riding upon the eerie green light. But he realized nothing has happened. There was no green light coming out of his wand there was no sound of approaching death .His wand remained passive at Enemar's wand as if it was just a twig. The dreaded killing curse had failed.
Elsewhere, Albus Dumbledore was not a man who would get tense easily. Even now he was not tense he was scared.Harry had entered the floo powder just before him.He had heard Harry say the destination correctly but yet inexplicably he had not reached the destination. The aged wizard with more experience than anyone in the wizarding world was baffled. His only solace laid in the fact that if Harry was indeed abducted as he feared if he was hurt or injured he could feel it and probably locate him. Dumbledore only hoped that this magical bond that he had established with Harry enabled him to save Harry before it was too late.
"What just happened?" said Enemar "is not the killing curse supposed to kill you.How could this be? Tell me Harry what power saved you this time. Your mother is not here to have saved you. As Dumbledore told you I have killed before using this very curse then what went wrong just now. Why wont..." he raised the wand again and said "AVADA KEDAVRA" still nothing happened, "why won't it work on you."
Then his face broke into a smile. "You have already guessed an answer but it is wrong it has nothing to do with the wand, Harry browse your own memory and think did Peter Pettigrew not kill Cedric Diggory with the dark Lords wand. The truth is Harry I can not perform a killing curse not this one at least. I am not a wizard as known to in your world." ============================================================================ ==================================================
Dumbledore was pacing about in the hall of Grimmauld Place. He had sent the entire Order to look for Harry. Professor Snape had contacted him a few moments ago confirming that there was a death eater meeting for the past one hour and hence Voldemort was not responsible for Harry's abduction. That could leave just one person. Enemar.
Suddenly the fire place across the hall started crackling and from it appeared the face of the young wizard he was just thinking about.
"Good afternoon Professor Dumbledore, sorry to have alarmed you but you see there are things that are necessary even if they are to be done in a wrong way."
"Where is Harry? What have you done to him?" asked Dumbledore.
"Relax Sir.Mr Potter is perfectly safe.Please step into the fire it will take you to him."
The Weasley family and Hermione had just entered the hall. "Don't Sir" yelled Ron Weasley, "this is a trap.If you think you should go take us with you."
"Ah, Ron Weasley, you are going to be the bodyguard of Albus Dumbledore, I would be delighted to host the great Weasley family as well but not right now.Dumbledore my offer is for you only please step into the fire Mr.Potter is waiting." said Enemar.
"Its ok Ron, I think we should do what he says as long as he has Harry" saying this Dumbledore stepped into the fire. He realized he was in a room that was very familiar. Had it not been extremely clean and tidy he would have thought...
"That's right you are in the 'most haunted house in Britain' the Shrieking Shack" came the voice of Enemar as he stepped in through the door.
Dumbledore immediately raised his wand, "where is Harry" he demanded. Enemar said nothing but gestured him to follow and left the room. Downstairs in the hall sitting quietly busy reading a book was Harry Potter.
"Harry are you alright." asked the concerned headmaster. Harry nodded in affirmation.
"You see as I had promised your 'boy who lived' and still very capable of fighting your battles. I had thought I would give my explanations only to Harry, but then realized that with our little misunderstanding sooner or later we are bound to have a confrontation and since no prophecy ever said I have to be killed by a teen I would die a dogs death in your hand.Well that is not acceptable to be." said Enemar grinning.
"Now before you act all hostile towards me let me show you some thing look at the screen behind you."
Dumbledore looked at a large white screen which replayed Enemar failing to use the unforgivable curse on Harry.
"But how?" said Dumbledore.
"Please have a seat Professor, Harry and you both deserve answers and you will get them but let me at least offer some refreshments."
"Enough of this mock courtesy" finally yelled Harry.
"You told me to wait here till the headmaster arrived and he has, now tell us what is going on."
"Oh well. Can't say I was a bad host." said Enemar, "Let me first start with with happened at Indus."
"Professor you are correct Indus is not an ordinary monastery. As I have already told Harry I am not a wizard but I am not an ordinary muggle either. The people at Indus had a gift. We could boast that we probably have the most gifted and powerful mind in the world. The residents of Indus had psychic abilities. Not those about predicting future. But with proper concentration we could perform quiet a decent bit of what you call magic without wands or incantation. This ability came to us via our mind and our heart. I know you professor are slightly aware of this ability as this is what is known in your world as ancient magic."
Dumbledore's eyes narrowed in comprehension.
"Indeed, this is ancient magic; a very raw powerful and yet limited form of magic. At least it was limited till three people came into the scenario." said Enemar his face grave.
"Aradha was the greatest exponent of our abilities that I had met. The Indus to my knowledge is the only shelter for people of our kind, but people of our kind are rare a lot more rare than even wizards. The Indus had just 39 people capable of performing ancient magic there were others before us but most died due to age. We live in secrecy as we learn our abilities and then return to the muggle world to live like an ordinary human being. This gift is forbidden to be exploited except in necessity."
"There is however one thing funny, much like you not many of us knew of the wizarding race either. In fact to my knowledge there were only two people who came to know of each others existence. One of them was Aradha. The other person is the reason I thought you would be interested in hearing me out."
"Who is it?" asked Harry.
"He is known and feared by a lot of names but I do not fear him.He is Tom Marlvoro Riddle. Lord Voldemort."
Harry gasped. "Does this mean he has these abilities too." he asked.
"Thanks to the heavens no. How he came to know of us is a mystery. Aradha never told me how he knew of the wizarding world. He was not a wizard either. Let me tell you somethings about my victim Aradha first that might show some light. Aradha to tell you the truth found me. I was a normal boy in college without much idea about my abilities when he arrived at my doorstep. He explained my gift. That is the only way to describe it.I accompanied him to Indus. To my delight Reet also seemed to possess this gift and he too joined us. Reet and I are old school friends."
"During our training in Indus we learnt a few things about our kind. We also learnt a few things that were not supposed to be told. When we arrived at Indus we were told Aradha was the only person who was able to bend the limitations of ancient magic. But he could do it only slightly. Because of this he considered himself superior to most of us. In the last stages of our training, Reet displayed abilities similar to that of Aradha. Aradha promised he would guide Reet to harness his abilities. But by then I had been able to guess Aradha wanted to subdue him. Now the story comes to me. Reet by accident displayed the full range of his abilities to Aradha. I however had learnt my potential long before Reet did. You might think I am boasting but its true that my abilities in ancient magic exceeded that of both Reet and Aradha. But I kept it a secret from Aradha. Reet being like my brother knew. I told him I would let everyone know when I felt comfortable. He respected that. I still did not have any idea about your world ye bit that changed two weeks ago."
"I know you take pride in your organisation but its espionage abilities leave a lot to be desired. You claim that Voldemort tried to enter Indus. That is wrong. He was in Indus for 3 days."
"When your ministry finally confirmed his return, Voldemort decided to bide his time and left England. He had somehow learnt of Indus and approached Aradha to assist him. He was greatly weakened by his encounter with Harry when Harry foiled his attempts to possess him. He was accompanied by Bellatrix Lestrange. Aradha was actually considering Voldemorts offer as he baited him with more power. He welcomed Voldemort to stay at Indus. Reet and I did not like this. We protested saying that our people should not be involved in these matters. What I did not know was that snakes abilities to read minds using legilimency. He tried to read my mind but failed, he however realized that my powers exceeded Aradha. So he tried to get me to his side I refused. He manipulated Aradha into throwing me out of Indus. He then tried to force Reet to join him. He too refused. Aradha by then had made up his mind to join Voldemort he told Reet those in Indus who did not join Voldemort will be killed. Reet reluctantly agreed fearing for the lives of others at Indus. He secretly fed information to me about Voldemort. Through him I was able to access Voldemorts plans. On the 3rd day of Voldemorts stay I found his true purpose of coming to Asia.
I made up my mind I had to stop him for the greater good.I decided to attack Voldemort at Indus."
"What exactly were Voldemorts plans?" asked Dumbledore.
"He had found out a secret through Aradha that even I did not know.It is the only link between the Indus cult and the wizarding world,-The Green Flame Torch."
"But that is a myth, it was stated in Merlin's journals that there might be such an object which will give one absolute control over Ancient Magic giving him power greater than any wizard or magi alive.But even he did not find it nor did anyone else." said Dumbledore.
"Your description of the Green Flame Torch is quite similar to what Voldemort thinks it is, however I think it is quite different, although what I think hardly matters as Aradha claimed he knew a method to locate the Green Flame Torch. I could not let him lead that snake to the power of immortals so I attacked Indus."
"I had to do a lot of damage to the monastery to enter the sacred path to Mohenjodaro at the chamber of death. That is where you found Aradha's body. I had tried to acquire as much knowledge about wizards as I could but in combat with Voldemort I was greatly unsuccessful. He managed to restrain me using what you call unforgivables. He was about to kill me, when I used my most potent weapon. I entered Aradha's mind and took over his body I forced him to attack Voldemort. Voldemort was so shocked that Aradha had turned sides he killed him using Avada Kedavra. The blame obviously came upon me as Voldemort disapparated. No one other than me and Reet knew Voldemort had entered Indus. But most of the cult had seen me break into Indus. I knew people would investigate this. I told Reet to act ignorant of what happened. First came a group from the ministry of magic. Then came your people from the order of Phoenix. From each of their minds I was able to extract information about your world but I knew I was at the tip of the Iceberg. From the mind of Remus Lupin I gained more details than I could about Hogwarts, Hogsmede and this place. Then I managed to befuddle them into thinking they had no information. I had come to know enough about you Professor Dumbledore that I was sure if I made matters illusive enough you would come to Indus. While you were away, I entered Hogwarts and the castle provided me with all details that I needed. Lastly it gave me the name of the one person who can and will assist me in my quest to protect the Green Flame Torch."
"Who?" asked Dumbledore.
"You already know professor.He is my first guest, none other than 'the boy who lived' Harry James Potter."
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