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

Do I smell burned ferret

Harry and Hermione landed with a loud thud on moist rough hewn stone and were welcomed by a most unwelcome voice.

"Hello Potter, mudblood." A drawling voice said. Harry slowly looked up from the ground and saw the face Lucius Malfoy with a superior smirk plastered on his face.

"Accio wands" He yelled before they could react.

Harry tried to use his seeker reflexes to catch his wand that was sailing towards Lucius but missed, he was still a bit dizzy from the portkey, travelling by portkey by surprise and while you are sitting down isn't a pleasant experience.

Lucius muttered something Harry didn't hear and immediately heavy chains erupted from the wall behind them and wrapped themselves around Harry's and Hermione's legs and arms dragging both towards the wall behind them and slamming them against it, holding them there.

While Hermione gave a surprised yelp and was knocked unconscious when her head hit the wall, Harry got his first good look of the room they were in.

They were in a large dank dungeon lit by only four torches close to where the three people were standing, the space was enormous. There were pillars standing 4 metres away from the four walls and in the centre of

the room a vast open space stretched into the darkness, farther than the four torches illuminated. The two of the flickering torches were on the pillars nearest to the three people, and two were close to were Harry and Hermione were chained to the wall.

"How nice of you to join me today, my Master will be very pleased to see who we have as our guests today, my master and I are having a private meeting in here in about 30 minutes so that leaves me some time to

have some fun with you and the mudblood." Malfoy said "Don't you think it was nice of me to charm your spoons as portkeys when Florean was distracted for a moment so you two could come and visit me." Malfoy

said while casually leaning against one of the pillars.

Harry's head was swimming from the blow against the wall but he quickly regained his composure.

"It's always a pleasure to see you too Malfoy." Harry spat "Aren't you supposed to be rotting away in Azkaban by now?"

"Everbero" Malfoy hissed while pointing his wand at him and Harry felt like he was hit by two bludgers shot from a cannon.

"It would be wise if you kept your mouth firmly shut Potter, you are not in a position where you may say whatever you want," Malfoy's smirk became even more vicious than normal. "I will take great pleasure in torturing you and your little mudblood friend before I take you to my Master, of course the mudblood won't get to see him, she'll be dead by then but not before I have some fun with her." Malfoy smirked before his face became dark and filled with fury "You will pay for what you have done to me Potter."

"So how did you get out of Azkaban Lucius?" Harry taunted, hoping he could stall Malfoy and find a way out of here.

"They didn't send me straight to Azkaban like you

Potter," Malfoy spat and Harry winced at the memory of his trial and felt his anger rising "they put me in a ministry holding cell and my lawyer paid bail and got me out until my trial but, unlike the Weasels, my family has plenty of money and if I run away the Malfoy Trust will hardly feel it."

Harry wasn't really listening to what Malfoy was saying but was eyeing his watch and looking if there was some way he could reach the piece of crystal on it.

"Crucio" Harry suddenly heard "You will look at me when I talk to you, you little brat." Malfoy snarled but Harry didn't hear it. He was solely focused on the feeling of a thousand white-hot knives piercing every

inch of his skin while he screamed himself hoarse.

Lucius held the curse for about 10 seconds but to Harry it felt more like ten eons. He was gasping for breath while Lucius laughed out loud.

"You like that feeling Potter, no, too bad, because over the next 24 hours you will feel it plenty of times, I promise." Malfoy said in a vicious tone.

After fifteen minutes Harry had been hit by a few cutting curses and was bleeding from a gash in his arm, two more Cruciatus curses and a few more powerful bludgeoning spells while Malfoy demanded he would beg him to stop but Harry pointedly refused.

Harry suddenly heard a groan next to him and immediately forgot his discomfort from the most painful of curses he had ever experienced as he saw Hermione stir and slowly open her eyes.

"Well, well, the mudblood has decided to join us." Malfoy sneered and was already starting to aim his wand at Hermione who was still trying to comprehend what was happening.

"No," Harry croaked "leave her alone, torture me all you want but leave her alone."

"Your desperate pleas will only please me more Potter," Lucius said in a smug voice because he got the Boy Who Lived begging him not do something,

something his Master hadn't even succeeded in, "maybe I'll let the mudblood live until my Master arrives after all and let The Brat Who just Won't die beg a little more." Malfoy smirked and prepared to cast the most painful curse known to wizardkind.

"Crucio."

Harry saw it happening in slow-motion.

The red beam started to inch slowly towards Hermione who was only just trying to understand what had happened when suddenly her eyes went wide with fear.

The beam connected and immediately Hermione started screaming and writhing in agony while Harry was screaming for Malfoy to stop.

Harry felt his eyes grow warm while tears streamed down his face at seeing Hermione go through such agony.

He felt his palms itching and power crackled in the air.

"Hades said I had an elemental skill for fire as well" Harry thought while looking at a torch next to Malfoy "Let's put it to the test."

Harry started concentrating and time slowed down even more while Lucius' attention was diverted from Hermione to Harry who was emanating an aura of pure Power while his eyes glowed red like a raging fire was burning in them.

Suddenly the four torches in the room flared as high as the ceiling that was a good 15 metres high and the heat was immense, the whole room was suddenly illuminated all the way to the other side and Harry saw that the

room was even bigger than he had expected with a stone altar in the middle, he thought he saw a figure move on the other side but was too concentrated on hurting Malfoy to pay any attention to it.

Malfoy got a terrified look on his face as the torches went back to normal only to see four snakes of fire racing towards him from every torch and surrounding him in a ring of fire two meters in diameter.

At first Malfoy was terrified and was looking around for an escape route out of the circle of raging flames. He realized that the flames didn't emanate any heat and thought it was just an illusion to scare him.

He looked at Harry and was about to laugh in his face and torture him some more but the vicious grin on Harry's face stopped him dead in his tracks.

Suddenly Malfoy realized he was in big trouble as he started to feel the heat from the flames and the circle became smaller.

Suddenly his Death Eater robes caught fire and he realized his end was near.

Malfoy screamed in agony as he was burned alive when the flames enveloped him while Harry was trying not to let his magic completely out

of control but failed.

A giant wave of raw magical power erupted throughout the dungeon and completely vaporised Malfoy while the chains holding him and Hermione shattered and were reduced to dust along with a dozen or so of the stone

pillars.

Harry and Hermione fell to the ground, Harry landed on his feet but Hermione just fell straight to the ground, still shaking violently from the aftermath of the Cruciatus curse.

Harry immediately got up and rushed to her side.

He wrapped his arms around her as he lifted her up into a sitting position while she was still shaking violently.

"It hurts so much." She whispered with a trembling voice so quietly it was almost a whisper while she clung to Harry for dear life.

Harry just rubbed her back and spoke soothing words while wondering what to do.

He could use the portkey in their watches to the Auror Headquarters but it would take too much explaining about what had happened and would probably have to stay to explain all this and she would be taken to St. Mungo's but he didn't want to budge from her side in her current state, he knew how horrible it was to feel the Cruciatus for the first time, he realised he would probably feel the aftermath of the curse too once the adrenalin from his energy burst and the anger subsided.

Suddenly he got an idea and took the amulet Hades had given him from his pocket where he had put it earlier that day and called for Hades.

"Hades, are you there." In a whisper.

Immediately he heard Hades voice in his head.

"Harry, the energy burst alerts are going haywire, what have you done?"

Harry noticed that the torches had stopped flickering and that time had seemingly stopped, he ignored this for now, he had other things on his mind.

"No time to explain now and what do you mean 'energy burst alerts', never mind, can I come over, I have an emergency and I'm bringing a visitor." Harry asked silently now because Hermione was looking at him strangely at him.

There was a long pause and after a few moments Harry heard Hades' decision.

"Of course but I hope you have a darn good reason for bringing someone down here and you'd better hope that person is trustworthy." Hades said in a doubtful voice.

"I'm absolutely positive about it." Harry responded in a determined mental voice.

Harry felt some sort of mental nod.

"Alright, just grab the amulet and think of the room were we first met, you will be transported there." Hades said and Harry felt the mind speech link

disconnect.

Harry was about to tell Hermione to brace herself but thought of something.

He untangled himself from Hermione's grasp for a second and she immediately began whimpering more loudly but Harry had to do this before they went to

the underworld.

He crawled over the place were Lucius Malfoy had been standing a minute or so ago and he saw three perfectly in shape wands lying on the floor.

Harry picked his and Hermione's wand up and hesitated a moment before picking up Malfoy's wand up, he didn't know why but he figured it might come in handy.

He crawled back to Hermione and noticed that she had fainted.

Harry scooped her up in his arms while holding the amulet in his right hand and the three wands in his left.

He grasped the amulet tightly and thought of the large room with the swivelling walls where he had first met Hades and closed his eyes, he didn't know why he did it but he thought it was the best thing to do.

He felt the faint rush of wind again and when he opened his eyes he was standing in the large disserted hall where he had first met Hades.

Author notes: I'm sorry this update took this long but I will try to update every week but with my exams coming up in about a week or two I don't think I will be able to hold this pace very long. Reviews are still VERY welcome. My Yahoo group is still open for everybody who wants to join and discuss my fics or anything else related to HP. The address is http/groups. New chapters will always be posted there first. The next chapter should be up by monday

Review responses:

Athenakitty: I hope this chapter answers all your questions.

FRED: I have other plans in mind and this is for everybody: SIRIUS IS NOT DEAD, THIS IS A FIFTH YEAR FIC, THE DoM FIASCO NEVER HAPPENED. There, I hope this settles it once and for all, the next one who says anything about Harry inheriting the black estate I will hex them personally right into next week. (just kidding)

Hakkai - Gojyo - Goku – Sanzo: I think this chapter answers that question and I have said it before, this is not a Dumbledore bashing fic, if you want one of those I have one posted down there and I'm planning on posting the next chapter of it very soon.

Thanks to everybody else who has reviewed.

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