Title: The Power of Seduction
Author: zimagesto
Disclaimer: don't own Harry Potter &/or co.
Summary: Something happened during the summer between the sixth and the seventh year and Harry isn't quite the same. Half-demons, assassins, fairies, annoyed Dumbledore and what would everything be without Voldemort to piss off?
AN: All the web addresses are made up. All e-mails are real. ;-)
Chapter 3Everything that will be and isn't now needs to have a beginning sometime in the future. The hardest tasks are no exceptions and Harry knew it all too well. He'd have to start telling his two best friends about what had really happened that summer and he needed them on his side, as well as he had to start the Army. Dumbledore's Army had been great, but now… now it had to be somebody else's army. Their own army.
Harry had to start a group and teach them how to fight, unify them under his command and introduce him to the other world. The one that he currently lived in. He had to teach them all he knew and really get them to work and he had to start sometime soon.
But right now, he had a very different problem. Like getting out of the Headmaster's office ASAP.
"Harry, Severus" Dumbledore said, gesturing for them to sit down. "I am glad you could make it"
'As if there was any chance that we could escape this without being six feet under' Harry thought. 'And even then I wouldn't be too sure'
"Glad we could be here, Headmaster" he replied with an innocent smile. 'I'd be even gladder to leave'. Snape just snorted.
"So, I do understand you've had an eventful summer, Harry" the old man said as the two sat down in the pair of chairs right in front of his desk.
"Quite, sir" he replied.
"May I ask where you have been?"
"Yes you may sir"
Harry could feel Snape fighting to resist the urge to chuckle as Dumbledore waited for the continuation, which did not come. Finally, he gave up.
"Where have you been, Harry? I must say I've been quite worried for your welfare, even though Severus said you were safe"
The usual answer of 'here and there' that he'd given to nearly everybody would not work with the old man, he knew that. But he'd known that it would come to this, so he'd prepared a much more complicated version of the very same 'here and there'.
"I couldn't quite tell you where sir, not geographically" he said 'on an island next to the southern coast of Greece', "but it was a rather warm place. Unnaturally so" 'more than 30 every day and sometimes 40, what do you expect?' "I think it was a wizard-altered zone" 'yes, we actually had a building to live in. Imagine that…' "maybe some weather altering charms?" 'definitely cooling charms on all interiors'.
"Hmm…" Dumbledore said thoughtfully, looking towards the Potion Master. "Severus, where have you taken him?"
"To a safe place, where I helped him improve his battle skills, Albus"
"Oh?"
Dumbledore looked at Snape over the glasses and Harry felt himself amused. 'Try whatever you can, Dumbledore, we won't tell what's gone on. You too will find out… later'
"Yes, I know you can't believe it, but surprisingly enough, I am nor blind, nor deaf and I would like to win this war"
Dumbledore narrowed his eyes barely as he tried to understand the comment which Harry knew would only lead him to nowhere.
"I'm sorry, Albus, I have a meeting" Harry said. "I promised Hermione and Ron to be with them tonight and I really should be going"
"Of course" the Headmaster replied, but Harry could feel he was not pleased. It didn't matter, though, so he got up, nodded to the two left in the room and mentally wished Snape good luck.
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Harry had finally managed to get a few moments to himself in Gryffindor Tower. He'd much rather have preferred to stay in his own bed and do this, but everywhere it was too crowded, so he ended up in the attic. Yes, surprisingly enough, Gryffindor Tower had an attic. The entrance was impossibly well-hidden, but he'd eventually found it.
It was funny that the school's greatest pranksters and wildest castle-searchers had not given the Gryffindor Tower a second thought. After all, who'd have thought that even the old bedroom place had something to hide? And nobody thought of the obvious thing: under a pointed roof, there's an empty space. So, the place had probably been abandoned for eons.
He collapsed next to the wall of the round room and looked around at the completely empty, uninteresting place. No light, no dust, no nothing. Perhaps he should research a bit and create some furniture and make this his lair. Yeah, that'd be good. But for now, he had something to do.
He turned to the black suitcase he'd brought in and took out a laptop. He smiled imagining Hermione saying that Muggle appliances didn't work in Hogwarts. But luckily enough, this one was designed by computer genius Nicholas, one of Harry's new friends and it was created especially so it would feed on magic.
He turned it on and soon got on the Internet, accessing a page. The page quickly loaded, showing two dragons flying around over an 'under construction' sign. Harry just grinned and clicked a small button under the sign that said 'owners sign in here'. He then introduced his nickname. "Emerald Eyes". And the password. "Voldemort is scum".
Soon enough, the real page appeared. The background was black, the letters were gold and two dragons were on top of the page. A full-working page disguised as an inexistent one. A few small other tricks and the page was untraceable. Courtesy of the very same computer genius Nicholas. Was he online?
Harry entered the chat and, as usual, after a few quick messages, he was connected and could see that 6 others were there, 6 that had established they'd be there. Tonks, Fred, George, Obsidian, Mirada and your very own Nicholas. Or in other words, ToBlaST, WWW1, WWW2, Obsidian, Slytherin Queen and Wolf. Tonks' name actually meant 'Tonks blazing star' and she'd chosen it for no particular reason. WWW stood for Weasley's Wizard Wheezes. Obsidian had said his name was worthy of passing as a nick. Nicholas loved wolves. And as for Mirada… well, Mirada was Mirada.
'Hi' he typed.
'What's up, Green Eyes?' Mirada asked as the other greeted him in their usual ways.
'Ceiling, I guess' he replied.
'Yes, but how's school? Got in touch with your friends, I believe. How much did you tell them?'
'Not too much, perhaps too little'
'Tell them things, Harry, you need them by your side'
'I know.'
'Heeeeey! Lol. You still have that nick? I thought you'd changed it by now' Tonks said and Harry laughed.
'Naw, I kinda like it'
'Why don't you change it to 'Gorgeous Green Eyes'?'
'I'm not that selfish'
'Wanna bet?' WWW1 asked.
'Awwwww… love, but they are gorgeous' Tonks said. 'Shut up, Fred!'
'Your eyes are nicer' Harry replied.
'Which ones? lol'
'We really must start interchanging nicks, you guys recognize us way too easily' WWW2 complained.
Harry chuckled.
'So, what's new?' he typed.
'Not much' Nicholas replied casually.
'Besides you stealing my girlfriend?' Obsidian asked.
'I thought we were sharing?' Harry typed quickly while laughing.
'I'm not yours so he can steal!' Tonks' replied while the WWWs were definitely typing too many lols to count.
'Yeeees, whatever. Shut up, weasel brats' Obsidian wrote quickly.
A few protests were written there, which Mirada quickly put an end to.
'Go sleep, Emerald. See you tomorrow' she typed.
'Farewell, my queen' Harry replied. 'Bye, everybody'
'Bye!'
Harry smiled at the screen before shutting down the laptop and attempting to put it in its suitcase. However, he did not get to do that as he started shaking like a leaf in a thunderstorm and collapsing on the floor, out cold.
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Thanks to:
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