Dark Betrayal 17
Of Muggles and Tears.
Ginny blanched when she saw Harry laying there so still, his hand clasped around a boy who she instantly saw was a living, breathing 16 year old Tom Riddle. Two wands were in his other hand, which she noticed was bruising. She couldn't take the time to go find a teacher, in case one of them woke up, so she grabbed her wand and pointed it at her throat, hoping someone was awake so early to hear her."Sonorous."
"Help! Help in the Hospital Wing! Dumbledore! Quietus!" Her voice back to normal, she scrambled out of bed. Her legs were sturdy but her hand shook as she pointed her wand at Tom.
"Petrificus Totalis." At least, it will slow him down, she thought. She left him laying on the floor, but turned her wand to Harry.
"Mobiliocorpus." Harry's limp body floated off the floor and Ginny directed him to a bed next to hers. She carefully picked up the wands and placed them in her pocket.
Dumbledore came running in, followed closely by McGonagall, Snape, Sirius and Madam. Pomfrey, all had their wands drawn. Dumbledore looked around, spotted the two new arrivals, and instantly had his wand on the young Voldemort.
McGonagall looked around in confusion, spotted Harry laying on the bed and gasped, "Oh, my." Snape sneered at everyone, his eyes fell on the young Tom, he looked at Dumbledore, who nodded, and he left followed by an eerily blank Sirius.
Pomfrey quickly ran over to Harry, checked his pulse and ran to her Potions cupboard. She came back, followed by seven different kinds of potions. She ran her wand over the still body and watched as two smoky symbols came out of her wand. One was in red, the other in white.
She tutted and quietly banished all the potions except one bright orange one. She took off Harry's strange light cotton black shirt and carefully poured the Orange potion in the center of his chest, drop by drop. The others alternated between watching anxiously and making sure Riddle was still out.
Finally, when the potion vial was empty Pomfrey waved her wand over the still prone body and muttered some spell. The white smoky figure still above the body changed and Pomfrey sighed. She then looked at Harry's arm, which by then, was slightly purple and black. She carefully waved her wand in an intricate pattern, spoke one short word "Enobleah." then tapped the arm gently with her glowing wand. Now, the red figure changed, once more satisfying Poppy. She turned to the others and nodded, then looked towards the figure of Tom Riddle. Ten minutes passed in silence then was broken by Tom moving.
Everyone was instantly alert, as Riddle's eyes opened.
The teachers shared a confused look at the fact that he couldn't move. Ginny explained.
"I put him in a body bind."
Dumbledore nodded at her and spoke, his voice almost shook visibly with power.
"Tom Riddle, you were brought here unconscious next to a very magically drained Harry Potter, what do you have tosay? Finite Incantatem." Tom shifted and cocked his eyebrow at Dumbledore.
"Harry Potter? Who's he? And where am I? It looks like a dump. Why are you so... glowy?" Tom looked thoroughly confused. Dumbledore stared at him for a moment andtried Legilimency. He was surprised to find the boy's mental barriers were non-existent, he delved deeper into his memories and found none. The only memories his head contained were the ones that had just passed. Dumbledore waved his wand over the boy and a dark grey smoke came out of his wand. He tried the spell again, with the same result.
He looked at the others teachers and said something that made them all sigh in relief.
"He doesn't have any magic left."
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Sometime later, Snape, Sirius and Dumbledore sat Dumbledore's office. Snape looked extremely haggard, his eyes had darker circles than usual under them and his skin looked whiter.
His eyes glowed with a dark power and it looked as if it were taking all his control not to get carried away by it. Sirius was blank. His face was lax and he looked like he had no muscles. He was slumped in the chair next to Snape.
"Severus, you may take the curse off of him." Dumbledore addressed the tired man. Snape looked at him dubiously.
"I will be killed, Albus, if this gets out." Dumbledore just smiled knowingly and tapped his nose. Severus nodded tersely and with some reluctance, let go of the curse around Sirius. Snape visibly slumped and his eyes stopped shining. Sirius took a moment to regain himself, took one look around the room, and put his eyes on Snape. His eyes darkened and he growled, then jumped at him.
"DAMN YOU SNIVELUS! I will KILL you!" Sirius threw punch after punch at Snape, who struggled weakly in return. Dumbledore cast the body bind on the both of them, then floated Sirius off of Severus.
"That is quiet enough, Sirius. He has only been doing as I told him." Sirius looked at Dumbledore incredulously, his eyes sparkling dangerously in his immobile face. Snape was bloody and his nose looked broken. Dumbledore undid the charm on him first, and suggested he leave to fix himself up and that he would explain everything later. Snape nodded and stormed out. Dumbledore then undid the charm around Sirius, who stood and started ranting.
"The deatheaters caught me, I was following Harry and they found me, then that MONSTER ordered Snivelus to imperio me so I could find out where Harry was and...Harry! Is he alright? Do you know if he's safe? I didn't say anything did I? Oh No!" He looked frantically around the room, as if he expected Harry to pop up from the shadows. Dumbledore cleared his throat.
"Sirius, Harry is alright, he is safe, and you didn't say anything about him at all to anyone besides me. He is in the Hospital Wing in fact." Here Dumbledore raised a withered hand as he saw Sirius open his mouth. " I have said that he is alright and it is true. He is merely sleeping. He has apparently defeated the Lord Voldemort." Sirius sighed, not quiet registering the last statement.
"Oh, good he's alright, sleeping, and he defeated– wait! HE DID WHAT? Voldemort's GONE! DUMBLEDORE EXPLAIN!" Sirius yelled, and fell backwards...on to the floor.
"I can not yet explain, as I do not know. I was summoned to the Hospital Wing by Miss. Weasley and arrived to find Harry laying on a bed, unconscious and young Tom Riddle laying on the floor. After awhile I discovered that Tom is by all accounts a Muggle. He has no memories and no magic. Harry only had a broken arm and dangerously little Magical Energy. His aura is white, did you know...?" Dumbledore trailed off thoughtfully, seemingly unaware of Sirius' flabbergasted and proudexpression.
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Dumbledore hurriedly left the room, still hearing Severus' shout. He had just told him the happy news of the defeat of Lord Voldemort and needless to say, Snape had taken it very well. He was actually laying on the stone floor on his stomach crying at the moment, with no shirt on. The latter because he wanted to be sure that he didn't have a mark anymore. His pale thin arm was completely pure, no Dark Mark anywhere.
Dumbledore didn't want the man to be embarrassed during such a joyous time and so, he left. Sirius was in the Hospital Wing, and the last Dumbledore had seen, he had been kissing his Godson's hand over and over, crying. Ginny had been holding Harry alternating between crying happily and laughing her head off. Madam Pomfrey even had a few happy tears running down her cheeks and into a large smile. McGonagall had excused herself quickly after hearing the news, but Dumbledore had seen her skip down the hall.
Needless to say, everyone at Hogwarts was EXTREMELY happy. Dumbledore felt younger than he had when he was twenty and the only thing holding him to the ground when he felt like floating was the public. How was the public going to be told about the defeat of Lord Voldemort and how was Dumbledore going to collect the Deatheaters?
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Ginny lay silently next to Harry, it was really dark out. Sirius and she had been sitting with Harry all day, and he was still asleep, not that either of them minded. Sirius was staring of into oblivion his mind on other times, while Ginny just contented herself by staring into Harry's face, therefore, she noticed when his eyelid twitched and opened.
"Ginny?"He said groggily. " Oh...my head." Harry sat up shakily, waking Sirius out of his dream world, he passed his Godson a glass of water. "Thanks." Harry took a sip and it seemed to wake him up. "Siri? Whatcha doin here?" He spoke tiredly, as if his brain was coated in cotton.
"I'm here with you Harry, you did a very wonderful thing." Sirius spoke softly and Harry nodded tiredly.
"Yeah...so he's gone right?" Harry yawned and snuggled into Ginny's side. Ginny put her hand on his head and started playing with his hair.
"He's not Voldemort anymore, he's Tom. He has no memories and no magic, he's a muggle." Ginny spoke quietly. Harry nodded.
"The spell was to defeat his evil, I didn't want to kill 'im. So whatever made him evil is gone, guess he really was born a nice guy." Sirius snorted and burst into full laughter when Harry's only response was a snore. Ginny giggled softly and smacked Sirius' arm.
"Shh...he's sleeping." She bent down and kissed Harry's closed eyelids, then snuggled up close to Harry, with her eyes closed, her red hair fanned out around both their heads, her hand still hidden in his messy black locks. She was quickly fast asleep and as such, she was unaware of Sirius staring at them, with an almost anguished look on his face. The only two words whispered the rest of the night came from him and they were strangled half-sobs.
"Lily, James!"
TBC
A/N Yes! Who is the AUTHORESS! I am that's who! :P I hope you liked this chapter... Isn't it awesome? Well if you think so tell me, if you don't think so, tell me and tell me why. Poor Siri... :( They most likely do remind him of Jamy and Lils. I hope he doesn't go insane... :o
T'would be horrible. Anywho...what are they gonna do to Tommy the Muggle? And HOW exactly will they tell the pooblic about Voldie shmorts? Can you imagine? I sure can.
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