Summary: It's Harry's fifth year and the war between Good and Evil is starting. Voldemort is on the rise and is trying to tip the balance to the side of Evil. Harry discovers new powers not even the Gods could dream about and learns some interesting facts after he is thrown into Azkaban by Minister of Magic Cornelius Fudge. What Fudge doesn't know is that he just triggered the series of events that will lead to the greatest battle the history of muggles as well as the history of wizards have ever seen.

Warning: swearing, angst and tragedy.
Disclaimer: This story is based on characters and situations created and owned by JK Rowling, various publishers including but not limited to Bloomsbury Books, Scholastic Books and Raincoast Books, and Warner Bros., Inc. No money is being made and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended.
Author's note this is my first attempt at fanfiction so don't expect too much and enjoy reading this fic.

Harry potter and the betrayal of trust

Liberation

The dementor was just mere moments away from sucking out his soul when...

The Boy Who Lived ceased to exist

Harry was terrified when seeing the dementor close in on him and he closed his eyes, he felt a faint rush of wind and suddenly he didn't feel the dementors rotting hands anymore nor did he feel the chair and suddenly he landed hard onto solid ground and some swore words he hadn't even realized he knew.

He stood up and looked around. He was in a long hallway with walls that seemed to exist out of only swirling shadows but when he touched them they were rock solid and very cold. The hall was illuminated by black torches that shone out a light he couldn't describe, it was total darkness but still he could see as if it was high noon. When he looked out one of the windows he saw nothing but swirling blackness. He could distinguish a massive cast iron door at the end of the hallway and started walking towards it.

When he studied the door he was struck with surprise. It was the same door as the front gate of Azkaban with the two dragons on it. Suddenly the door opened and a voice from a man came trough: "Come in Harry, we have matters to discuss." Harry obeyed and stepped into a room the size of the great hall at Hogwarts, Hogwarts... He really missed that place right now, it had been his only real home in his life, of course he could say the same about the Burrow and just wished all of this would have never happened. But at this moment in the situation he was in didn't think neither of them was his home after what happened the past month, they all betrayed him. They weren't at his trial the first day but they probably didn't know about that one but even the second day nobody showed up, Percy must have told them but still nobody showed up. Hagrid he could understand, he was on business for Dumbledore. "There it is again," Harry thought "that man interferes with everything, controls my life and it only makes matters worse." "Harry," came the voice again "discard your anger for now, we don't have time for this, after our conversation you will understand and you won't have to take his orders anymore, believe me." "You can read my mind?" Harry asked. Suddenly the torches in the room lit up and he could see a very old man with a long beard and a sceptre sitting on a throne on the other end of the room. He was very muscular like and looked like a true soldier of ancient times.

"I am Hades, king of the underworld and we are here to help you." "We?" "Yes, me and the other gods of the universe." I was the one to get you out of that place because I am the one who is the most related to the type of situation you were in. A couple of weeks ago in your timeline a sudden burst of energy came to our attention. It was you who caused it and it caused us to worry about the universe. Harry, you possess great powers and you must learn to harness them or they could lead to great destruction but first I must ask you a question, if you do not answer truthfully you will be immediately swallowed by the fires of the underworld and you will suffer till the end of times." Harry swallowed "Boy, you really now how to get a person comfortable." Hades lips curled up into a faint smile. "Ha, a man who laughs at death, I appreciate that." "I'm not dead?" "Not yet,..." Hades replied but after seeing Harry pale considerably he quickly added: "just kidding, at least if you don't lie to me. Now I ask you, will you use your powers for evil or for good?" "I think out of all people you should know that," Harry replied "you are the master of all evil." You see Harry, that's were most people are wrong. They think because something is dark it is evil. It isn't, Light and Dark are just two opposites that keep each other in balance, evil and good are what people do with Light and Dark. You are the perfect example, Parseltongue is a gift which only dark wizards possess but you do not use it for evil but for saving lives." "Ok, you have proven your point and to answer your question, no. I would never turn evil after being an eyewitness to the consequences of war. I lost both of my parents because of it and the world still carries marks from the last time the Wizarding world was at war." "Very well then, you've spoken the truth or else you wouldn't be standing here anymore." Harry let out a sigh of relief.

"Why have you brought me here?" Harry asked. "The other gods and I have decided to bring you here for training to learn you how to control your powers" Hades replied "Now let's begin with your basic training. We will not interfere with your complete training, that you will have to do yourself. If the gods interfere too much a war in our realm could commence and the last time that happened was 65 million years ago in your timeline." "Why do you always say "our" timeline and what happened then?" "You don't know what happened? O yes, those relatives of yours... Well for starters, our time displacement varies a lot from yours. In this realm time goes by much faster than in your world. What happened to you two weeks ago has happened 6 decades ago in this realm, you see, we gods as you like to call us take a lot of time to discuss these matters and to interfere in human matters must be considered carefully. And the thing that happened 65 million years ago was an accident after a heavy discussion in our realm which caused the extinction of the dinosaurs. Our realm exists from the beginning of time. We are the rulers that make sure the balance between Light and Dark stays equal, but at this moment that Voldemort fellow is trying to resurrect The Dark Army, an ancient unmatchable force of demons and other dark creatures. The last time The Dark Army was invoked in a war was when the ancient gods of Egypt began a full scale war together with the ten plagues in Egypt. They blamed each other and one of them was foolish enough to call for The Dark Army and destroyed the Egyptian civilization with it, the other gods and I could prevent the destruction of the world but the damage was done and a blooming civilization was destroyed. The gods that invoked The Army are still paying for their deeds in this realm, The Shadowrealm." Hades explained. "It will take time for him to be able to do it but he is nearly immortal due to some steps he underwent, that's why he overcame the Killing Curse. As for you, thanks to your mother's sacrifice you lived but it changed you when the Avada Kedavra curse struck you. You became even more powerful than Merlin." "How do you mean?" Harry asked. "Well, Merlin was the last one to visit our realm of the human race, before that the Elves came in and out daily but they even broke contact with us about 2000 years ago. Nobody knows where they went, not even we know. Merlin possessed great powers and we brought him here as well to teach him how to control the power inside of him.

He helped the world in many ways but there was no real evil to fight back then. Now, on the other hand, there is a great evil lurking around the corner and it is your destiny to destroy it or to be destroyed by it." "What do you mean?" "Don't you know anything?" Hades asked.

"A little more than fifteen years ago a young seer with little to no talent at all made a prophecy telling a tale about a dark lord who would try to tip the balance of Light and Dark. He would come across a little boy who he would mark his equal and be defeated. But he would rise again 14 years later when he had crossed the boy's path for the third time. They would fight each other but only they could kill each other. Only a few people knew of this prophecy even today. The Dark Lord only knows part of it that is why he tried to kill you on that dreadful day. Normally we wouldn't have interfered, but you have unleashed a power inside of you that could make this war escalate into a full blown war between the gods, humanity and the dark forces and the destruction of the universe as we know it. Enough of this for now, I will only teach you how to control so you won't destroy the planet, I'm not planning to teach you how to use it. That you will have to do yourself."

"First, you must control to learn your temper, when your outburst occurred you showed talent for elemental magic. This magic is very useful but also very dangerous. In your cell you felt the earth started shaking and you saw the candle flare up. Fire and wind are the most dangerous of the four elements. On the outside the sea became dangerous and the wind was so strong in started to form a typhoon, luckily you calmed down fast enough before Azkaban was destroyed. About throwing that woman out of the room and shutting the door without doing anything seems to point in the direction of you being able to do wandless magic. Only three people can do that that are still alive. Two of them of them are Albus Dumbledore and Nicholas Flamel, the third person is you Harry." "Great, another one of those things the Daily Prophet can write about." Harry replied "Can't Voldemort do it?" "No, he can't. I will explain the reason for that at a later time"

"You really don't like to be famous isn't it." "No, I really don't." "Why?" "Well, if you look at the event that made me famous I really don't want to be famous like that. First of all my parents died that night and second, I didn't do anything. My mother saved me with her sacrifice so if anyone should be famous, it should be her." "Well Harry, you showed me great integrity and just for that I will reward you but only at the end of your training." "Thank you." "Now, before we start I suggest you get some rest and some food. Azkaban wasn't very good for you." "Won't they start asking questions back on earth?" "By the time they realize you're gone a week will have passed in this realm." "Where will I sleep?" Just as Harry asked the question the wall of shadows on the left side of the room started swivelling and a door appeared out of nowhere. Harry walked towards the door and opened it. He was standing in a large living space. On the left side of the space was a large table with a couple of chairs and a sitting area for reading. On the right side there were two doors, one of them was labelled bedroom and the other bathroom. The most impressive thing of the room was the centre of it were a wooden floor was arranged for hand-to-hand combat training as well as sword training. On the wall opposite of the entrance a large variety of weapons was installed. Harry looked at a few of them. There were axes, broadswords, bows, crossbows and a daikatana. It was the only sword of this type on the wall and Harry was fascinated with this one particular sword. He reached for it and took it of the wall but as soon as he had it in his hands he dropped it because of the sheer weight of the sword. "Maybe you should wait before you try any of those weapons," Hades laughed "let's get you into shape first. You are a skeleton from being in that place." Harry realized what he was talking about but he didn't think he could even lift the sword before he went to Azkaban. "Get some rest first." Hades suggested "We have a lot of work to do tomorrow." "Yes, I think could use a good night sleep in a nice warm and clean bed. And thank you for getting me out of that place just in time. I was almost kissed." "No problem, it would've been a shame to let someone with your potential become useless wouldn't you say." "I would hate to become like that at all." Harry laughed for the first time in almost a month. They said goodnight and Harry went to the bathroom to take a nice hot shower. After being in Azkaban for almost a month it was very much needed. After his shower he looked in one of the cabinets and found a tee-shirt to sleep in and a pair of fresh boxers. The bedroom was a very large room with a double four poster bed and a large closet full of work-out clothes. Harry just went to bed, he was drained from Azkaban even more then he thought and had a trying day tomorrow.

The next day Harry got up feeling like he was reborn. He entered the living area where breakfast was already served. He ate like he hadn't had any food in a decade, well at least nothing decent in three weeks. After his meal he went into the bathroom and took a shower. He then went into the bedroom and got a full set of work-out clothes. Just as he entered the living room again Hades came in. "I see you had a good night sleep, you look better already." "Well, a good shower and a soft mattress together with some clean blankets tend to do that to you." Harry replied. "Well if you think you're up to it we can start to work on some occlumency it will help to control your emotions." Hades suggested.

They went to sit in the middle of the wooden platform crosslegged face-to-face. "What is occlumency precisely?" Harry asked "It is the power to shield you from attacks on the mind and to lie without letting someone who knows legilimency to notice it." "And legilimency is the art to read peoples minds I presume." "Indeed." Was the reply. "So how do you do this." "For starters you need to organise your thoughts and memories. Your mind will be much more organised and easier to shield. For the shielding part you must learn to built a protective barrier around the memories you wish to protect, in the second stage of occlumency I will teach you to let some thoughts wander outside of your defences and let the intruder think he has total control over your memories." "You told me that you wouldn't teach me how to use powers but only show me how to control them." "Yes, those were the rules the other gods gave me but I don't like rules very much, so we'll just have to keep some things a secret." "I guess so and besides, any help against Voldemort is better than none."

"Indeed, we will now start with some occlumency. First, try to relax. When people use occlumency to shield their memories they use one of the four elements: earth, wind, water and fire. Mine is wind so let's try that one first. Now try to imagine your memories are swept away in the wind and the wind hides them so that nobody can find them." Harry relaxed and imagined that the wind was blowing his memories around in his head and making them unreachable for the outside world. Now I am going to try and see if you can shield your memories, don't be afraid, I won't use much force or anything?" Harry braced himself and nodded. Hades murmured Legilimens. To Harry it felt as tough his mind was being probed with ice-cold needles shifting trough his memories. Hades immediately ceased the attack on Harry's mind. "It looks like wind isn't your element, I didn't even feel the slightest resistance while entering your mind so wind isn't you element. Let's try water. Try to imagine that your thoughts are drifting around in the depths of the ocean were nobody can reach them and that the streams carry them around." Harry did as he was told and Hades tried again. "Legilimens." He whispered. Immediately Harry felt the cold of the needles shifting trough his mind. "Water isn't your element either I see. Let's try fire. This time imagine that the fire is consuming your memories but doesn't harm them. That it hides them in the heat of the flames that no intruder can bear." Harry did as he was tolled. This time when Hades tried to enter his mind at first it felt like the needles were melting and couldn't enter it but when Hades put a little more force into the attack the fire in Harry's mind felt like it was suddenly frozen solid. It shattered in a thousand pieces and the feeling of the needles returned full force. Hades seized his attack immediately. Harry was panting heavily and was feeling nauseous. "I think we should stop now, this was already more than I had expected to be able to do in one day..." Hades said. "What now?" Harry asked. "If you occupy yourself with arranging your memories for about 10 to 15 minutes every evening it should get a lot easier, this was enough for now. Your mind can't take much in the beginning and it is very draining. I think you should start with some physical training." As soon as Hades said this another door appeared on the left side of the room "And of course you could study some sword fighting and read up on some curses and other things." Another door appeared next to the previous one. "You can spend the rest of the day as you please, don't forget to practice some occlumency to arrange your thoughts. See you tomorrow." With that Hades left. Harry took a moment to recover from the legilimency and stood up. "I still feel to weak for some training so I'll check out the library first." He thought "I just hope occlumency isn't going to be like that all the time." And he stepped into the library. Harry was just shocked at how many books a library can have. This room was about 8 times the size of the Hogwarts' library and two times as high. Shelves full of books reaching as high as the ceiling and the entire length of the library. "How am I going to find a book in this place?" Harry wondered when he noticed a high desk with a gigantic tome on it. He stepped in front of the desk and opened it. Inside on the first page was a small message written: "Ask what you need and it will be given to you." "Okay," Harry said "a book on duelling." The pages in the tome started to whirl and stopped at a page with the title: "Duelling: weapon or wand." Under it was a list off all the books about duelling, the author and the publishing date of the book. The first book was in hieroglyphics and so were many other's on the first two pages. Harry skimmed trough some pages and on the last two pages of the chapter were books in English. Harry searched trough the last fifty and found a title that interested him. "Fifty ways to play dirty and how to counter them by Alastor Moody." "Well I see they update their library regularly. Fifty ways to play dirty and how to counter them." Harry said. A thump was heard in the back of the room and a few moments later a book came sailing from the back of the room and landed on the desk next to the large tome. "I think Hermione would certainly appreciate this system. I sure do." Harry thought and picked up the book. His mood fell immediately when he thought about his "friends" who hadn't even wrote him while he was in Azkaban. He walked into the living room and noticed there was a plate with some sandwiches on the table. "And I could certainly get used to that." He picked up the plate and went to sit down in the sitting area. He read trough half the book when dinner was served. After he finished his meal he walked into the gym. He was surprised to just find an ordinary muggle gymnasium. He just figured pureblood wizards would find it degrading to do physical labour so that no magical variants were ever designed.

On each of the workout equipment laid a little manual for with some useful tips in it. He first started lifting some weights for about 10 minutes. He then wt to work on the treadmill. After only fifteen minutes he was exhausted. He went to the living room and went to lie down a bit in one of the couches in the sitting area. He was thinking about what was going to happen when he got back to his own dimension when he had to suppress a huge yawn. "I'll just do my occlumency exercises and go to sleep, I'm wasted."