Cold Touch

A/N Howdy Yall,

Sorry the update took sooooo long but I felt that it needed tweaking and then more tweaking and I also ended up doing little changes to other chapters as well. I do hope you enjoy this chapter I've worked hard and if you don't like it, I just might break out in tears and end up embarrassing myself in front of everyone I know. You don't want me to embarrass myself, do you? If you just said yes then you're not an extremely nice person to nearly the point of being a mean person. I know I promised 1500 words but I ended up scrapping the chapter I had written and rewriting it and not quite getting as much as before. If you'd like I'll post these alternate chapters somewhere for your enjoyment.


The reason this update took longer than I promised is because I've gotten distracted writing first chapters to three other stories and Im waiting to see if any of them go anywhere and so I'm going to let you decide, So vote on which idea you find most appealing.

Idea #1

Harry is the Gryffindor ghost but when someone offers him the chance for a second life will he take it?

Idea #2

The Saga of the Snake

The details of Tom Riddle's journeys which eventually led him to become the dark lord

Idea#3

In the year 1914, The Great Archduke of Austria is murdered by way of the killing curse in Sarajevo, Serbia thus igniting the greatest war in Wizarding history. The story follows the heroes of the canon books throughout the war in different positions.


Check out my new msn space (grrr wont let me put in a link) look for the URL in my profile!

"Mr.Potter, Mr. Potter, come quick"

Harry was awoken from his sleep by a hand on his shoulder and looked up to see a DMDE man looking down at him.

"What? What is it?" Harry questioned

"Severus Snape needs to see you; he is very ill and does not have much time"

Harry quickly began to dress before leaning over and kissing sleeping Hermione on the head and following the man down the hall.

"The sick began arriving about an hour ago, you're lucky; he was on one of the first rounds of evac".

When they entered the room where he had earlier checked in, Harry was shocked to see so many sick people and healers trying their best to treat them but even more frightening were the amount of body bags lying in the corner.

Slowly they came upon the figure of Severus Snape and Harry gasped with shock, His eyes stared straight up from his cot and his normally pale skin had gained some color but the color was blue.

"It looks like we're too late" the man said sadly

Two other DMDE men came over and prepared to put him into the bag until Harry noticed a piece of paper clutched into his fist. Grabbing it quickly he said "This must have been what he meant to give me" the two men nodded before packing Severus into the black bag and carrying him over to the pile.

Harry walked back to the room hoping to study the paper with Hermione, she was awake when he arrived and she said when he entered "Harry, where have you been?"

"Snape's dead, but he wanted to give us this" showing her the piece of paper.

"What does it say?" she questioned

Made on 7/6/768

Made by Trulus Comwut

Classification: Highly Secretive, Security Clearance 5

"Fuathasach bàs will come and the line of the healer will be raised, in the place where magic is born the healer shall find his touch and the ashes of old will be swept away and the phoenix will be reborn"

"What does Fuathasach bàs mean?"

"It's Gaelic for Horrible Death; we learned about Fuathasach bàs in History, it was used to describe the 3rd century plague which nearly killed 2/3rds of all of the English wizards in two weeks"

"How did it end?"

"Rowena Ravenclaw sacrificed himself and her magic healed the people"

"So is it possible that the line of the healer is the Ravenclaw line?"

"Rowena Ravenclaw never had children"

"Oh, Ok where do you think this place they talk about is? The Place Where Magic was born?"

"It could mean Egypt, where the first signs of magic appeared" Hermione replied

"I don't think so; it says is born, Maybe it's where the source of magic comes from?"

"The Temple!" she cried out

"The what?" he replied dumbfounded

"The Temple to Ka, the Egyptian God of the Vital Force of Life"

"The Vital Force of Life?" Harry replied, Once again dumbfounded

"Magic, supposedly Ka provided the ancient wizards the power of magic to protect the pharaohs of Egypt".

"So we should go to this temple? Which I suspect is in Egypt" Harry replied

"I have no idea how we could possibly get there"

"We could try and arrange a port key"

Hermione was not quite sure how Harry had convinced her to lie to the Head of the Department of Magic Transportation but he had.

"Sir, My great-aunt lives in Egypt and for my safety I think its best if I go stay with her during this crisis"

The man thought it over before nodding and saying "I can arrange you a portkey to Cairo in about an hour and a half"

She nodded and put on a fake smile "oh thank you sir!" and gave him a tight hug.

As she walked away from the man she smiled and thought to herself 'man im good'.

Harry stood just out of earshot of the man and said "did it work?"

"it worked"


That was chapter 4 in all of its glory, Like I said earlier, Please vote on my ideas for my next story! I'm going to try and finish this in the next month or so and I'm currently aiming for 30000 words. After this is done I'm going to start one of those up there.

Fare Thee Well

Deatheater03