duj - Less mystery. Hopefully still cute.
Gilraen Telemnar - Does this clear things up?
Empire and Exigency
Chapter 7 : Resurrection
by Annie B
Rated PG-13
JKR owns all things Hogwarts. I only wish I did.
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"Sorry that I killed you, father." Draco strolled casually across the sand floor of the cavern. "But its all for the best. You'll see."
The figure lunged forward.
"Impedimento!" Draco cried. Two more voices echoed his.
Three streams of power shot out. Draco, Ron, and Hermione. Each had their wand out and aimed. The black shape staggered under the force of their combined magic.
"Accio Dementor!"
Wrapping their magic around the figure, they pulled it to one side of the room where red and purple crystals had been set in a rough circle. Thick yellow candles flickered between the stones, giving off the peppery scent of strange herbs. Here and there inside the ring unusual artifacts of bone and metal had been placed - their pattern not quite random but still incomprehensible to the casual eye. The one thing clear was that these artifacts - whatever their magic and wherever they may have come from - were most obviously in the category *dark*.
"Stand still." Harry Potter said calmly. "I want to get this right. After all, I've only seen it done once."
He aimed his wand at the thing that had been Lucius Malfoy.
"By the bone of an ances... oops" Harry corrected. "I mean... descendant."
Draco held out a tiny white chip. It levitated briefly over the black figure, flared, and was gone."
"By the skin of an ally."
Hermione fumbled in her pocket, finally fishing out a stoppered test tube. Inside floated a bit o pink... something. Pulling the cork with her teeth, she flicked the contents towards the magic enclosure.
It too traveled, flared, and vanished.
"By the blood of a foe."
Unfastening his bright orange 'Go Cannons!" button, Ronald Weasley pricked his finger and, with some difficulty, squeezed out a single drop. It floated red across the chamber, spun out, multiplying into a scarlet shower, and vanished into the black shape.
"Now by my power, and that of..." Harry looked at Hermione.
"Rowena Ravenclaw."
"Salazar Slytherin." That was Draco. Naturally.
"Godric Gryffindor." Ron finished the circle.
"And myself, Harold James Potter, Lord of this Realm and Master of this Ritual, be ye again as you were, living and true and whole, Lucius Malfecto Malfoy."
Nothing happened.
There was a long pause.
Ron looked at Harry. "Do you think we should maybe have invited a Huflepuff? Or maybe Neville?"
Before Harry could answer, a huge flash filled the chamber, white hot and blinding.
When it cleared, Lucius Malfoy lay on the chamber floor; naked, thin, weak, but most evidently alive.
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OK - review this story or Lucius Malfoy gets it. How's that for a motivation?
*chuckle*
Seriously - I do want to hear from you. Please! I want to know what I'm doing right or wrong.
And this was short, I know. It was the first half of a longer chapter, but that got too long so I decided to split it. I promise to post the next part soon.
Gilraen Telemnar - Does this clear things up?
Empire and Exigency
Chapter 7 : Resurrection
by Annie B
Rated PG-13
JKR owns all things Hogwarts. I only wish I did.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
"Sorry that I killed you, father." Draco strolled casually across the sand floor of the cavern. "But its all for the best. You'll see."
The figure lunged forward.
"Impedimento!" Draco cried. Two more voices echoed his.
Three streams of power shot out. Draco, Ron, and Hermione. Each had their wand out and aimed. The black shape staggered under the force of their combined magic.
"Accio Dementor!"
Wrapping their magic around the figure, they pulled it to one side of the room where red and purple crystals had been set in a rough circle. Thick yellow candles flickered between the stones, giving off the peppery scent of strange herbs. Here and there inside the ring unusual artifacts of bone and metal had been placed - their pattern not quite random but still incomprehensible to the casual eye. The one thing clear was that these artifacts - whatever their magic and wherever they may have come from - were most obviously in the category *dark*.
"Stand still." Harry Potter said calmly. "I want to get this right. After all, I've only seen it done once."
He aimed his wand at the thing that had been Lucius Malfoy.
"By the bone of an ances... oops" Harry corrected. "I mean... descendant."
Draco held out a tiny white chip. It levitated briefly over the black figure, flared, and was gone."
"By the skin of an ally."
Hermione fumbled in her pocket, finally fishing out a stoppered test tube. Inside floated a bit o pink... something. Pulling the cork with her teeth, she flicked the contents towards the magic enclosure.
It too traveled, flared, and vanished.
"By the blood of a foe."
Unfastening his bright orange 'Go Cannons!" button, Ronald Weasley pricked his finger and, with some difficulty, squeezed out a single drop. It floated red across the chamber, spun out, multiplying into a scarlet shower, and vanished into the black shape.
"Now by my power, and that of..." Harry looked at Hermione.
"Rowena Ravenclaw."
"Salazar Slytherin." That was Draco. Naturally.
"Godric Gryffindor." Ron finished the circle.
"And myself, Harold James Potter, Lord of this Realm and Master of this Ritual, be ye again as you were, living and true and whole, Lucius Malfecto Malfoy."
Nothing happened.
There was a long pause.
Ron looked at Harry. "Do you think we should maybe have invited a Huflepuff? Or maybe Neville?"
Before Harry could answer, a huge flash filled the chamber, white hot and blinding.
When it cleared, Lucius Malfoy lay on the chamber floor; naked, thin, weak, but most evidently alive.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
OK - review this story or Lucius Malfoy gets it. How's that for a motivation?
*chuckle*
Seriously - I do want to hear from you. Please! I want to know what I'm doing right or wrong.
And this was short, I know. It was the first half of a longer chapter, but that got too long so I decided to split it. I promise to post the next part soon.
