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
A little history lesson
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.
"Where is he?" Harry thought while holding Hermione, who was still unconscious. Not seeing Hades he decided to look in his living quarters "Maybe he's in there."
Harry walked over to the door on the left side of the room and opened it which isn't easy while holding a person in your arms.
He carefully stepped inside the main room carefully while making sure he didn't bump Hermione's head against the doorframe.
Once inside there was no sign of Hades, Harry just shrugged and carried Hermione into his bedroom and lay her down on his bed. He walked into the bathroom, there was a cabinet above the basin and he opened looking for something that might help Hermione deal with the aftermath of the Cruciatus curse.
He groaned in frustration when he found it to be empty.
Suddenly he heard a pop behind him and turned around.
A small house elf had appeared behind him and handed Harry two bottles that Harry took with a confused expression on his face.
He looked at the labels and was about to thank the house elf profusely but it disappeared with a pop before he could say something.
Harry just shrugged and hurried back to his bedroom.
Hermione was still unconscious and because Harry didn't know the spells to administer the potion straight into Hermione's stomach he tried a different approach.
Harry hadn't noticed until now but he still held the three wands in his right hand and also a vial with a dark red substance in it, in his left hand he held a bottle with a purple liquid in it.
He put both vials that the house elf had given him on the night stand together with Hermione's and Malfoy's wand.
He aimed his own wand at Hermione.
"Delego Navitas" Harry said with determination. It was a spell Harry had read about in fifty ways to play dirty and how to counter them by Alastor Moody. It was used when someone was hurt badly or had a case of a magical burn-out in a duel and transferred some of the caster's energy to the person it was cast on, not much but just enough to give them time to escape.
Harry hoped it would wake Hermione up and give her enough time to swallow the potions.
Hermione gasped and opened her eyes.
Suddenly she jumped up and out of the bed and looked around fearfully not understanding why she was lying in a bed in a room with walls made from swivelling shadows.
Suddenly she noticed Harry standing on the side of the bed and flung herself at him over the bed. Harry stumbled backwards from the force, and was trying to breathe as Hermione did her best to imitate Molly Weasley when she gave one of her bone-crushing hugs. In an attempt to comfort her Harry put his arms around her and hugged her back, although not as hard.
Hermione looked up into Harry's eyes, "Harry, what is..." Hermione started to ask but Harry interrupted her.
"Not now Hermione," he said as he gently unwrapped himself from her and pushed her back down on the bed "drink these, it will help, then I will explain everything." He said.
Hermione just nodded and Harry gave her the vial with the red potion in it.
Hermione looked at the label and suddenly her eyes got went as wide as saucers, "Harry..." but again, Harry interrupted her "I told you I will explain later, first drink it," and she did.
Next he handed her the bleu potion and she downed it without casting a glance at the label, afraid by what she might see.
"Now, you'd better exp..." but she never finished her sentence as she slumped down onto the bed and immediately began to snore softly.
Harry chuckled softly at this "who would've guessed Hermione snored." He thought as he left the bedroom and headed for the hall to wait for Hades.
He entered the hall and still no sign of Hades so he headed for the throne and flopped himself down in it without giving in a second thought, suddenly he felt very tired and could feel the anger and adrenaline from earlier leave his body, he tried to keep his eyes open but sensed he couldn't and quickly fell asleep.
Harry awoke suddenly and felt as if he were floating, he opened his eyes and found out that he actually was in the air but he forgot about this for a moment when he saw the furious face of Hades, his sceptre aimed at Harry, a few meters down from where he was.
Harry noticed another person standing behind Hades, the same height as Hades but without the beard and ancient warrior look, he seemed to be in his mid-thirties with forest green eyes and a muscular body, who was looking at him with the same enraged expression but something wasn't right with his glare, it seemed forced.
"How dare you?" Hades roared, "Have you got no respect at all, you little ungrateful brat, just sitting in my throne like that."
"I'm sorry, I was just tired and I was waiting for you but you weren't here so I decided to sit down and wait for you and I fell asleep." Harry said very quickly in a high-pitched voice "I'm sorry." Harry said in a frightened even higher tone.
Suddenly the man behind Hades burst out laughing and conjured a camera and took a picture all in the fraction of a second and dropped to the floor laughing uncontrollably.
"I'm sorry Hades but I couldn't control myself anymore." He said between fits of laughter and Harry stared at him in confusion and looked back at Hades who was still staring at Harry but suddenly the corners of his mouth turned up a bit and he too started laughing uncontrollably and Harry suddenly dropped down and prepared to land on hard solid ground but fell down on what felt like a mattress and stared incredulously at the two figures in front of him who were laughing uncontrollably and rolling on the ground.
Hades regained his composure the fastest and stood up and walked over to Harry extending his hand to help him up, Harry took it cautiously and pulled himself on his feet.
"I'm sorry Harry, I just couldn't resist the temptation when I saw you sleeping on the throne." Hades said while tear escaped his eye from laughing so hard.
Suddenly Hades stepped back in fear as he saw the confusion on Harry's face turn to a furious expression and a glare that should have vaporised Hades on the spot.
"Now Harry, there is no need to get angry, I know that maybe it was a bad time to prank you but..." Hades stammered and took a few steps back as Harry started to advance on him but tripped over the man behind him and landed on his arse with a loud thump.
The guy that Hades had tripped over had stopped laughing as well and looked in fright at the young man coming towards him and noticed that the shadows in the walls started swirling faster and faster.
"I have just been kidnapped together with a friend of mine and tortured with very painful curses including the Cruciatus curse, I just killed the man who did it and fall asleep from exhaustion after taking care of my friend and you decide to PRANK ME." Harry yelled as his gaze filled with apparent anger.
Suddenly the camera that was lying on the floor next to the other man flew right into Harry's hand and blinded Hades and his companion for a brief moment as Harry started to laugh but it wasn't full heartedly as suddenly something penetrated Harry's train of thought and he abruptly stopped laughing and shuddered.
"I killed a man." He whispered just loud enough for Hades and his companion to hear.
Harry sunk to the ground, the camera falling along with him and it landed on the ground with a loud clash on the floor of the now silent room.
Hades quickly stood up and stepped over to where Harry was sitting on the ground, his chin on his knees and his arms wrapped around his legs with his eyes closed while shuddering occasionally.
Hades put a reassuring hand on Harry's shoulder and Harry looked up into Hades eyes which he now noticed were a brilliant blue, almost transparent.
"Harry, why don't you tell us what happened today." Hades said in a soft voice.
Harry nodded and stood up, he entered his living quarters and went to sit in one of the large squashy couches in the reading area while Hades went to sit opposite him and his companion next to Hades.
Suddenly a house-elf appeared with a tray with a mug of hot chocolate on it at Harry's side which he took grateful.
Harry sighed as he took a sip and started telling the events that had occurred today, up until now.
Near the end Harry was near a breakdown.
"I killed somebody." Harry whispered over and over again while curling up on the couch.
"Don't be so upset about it Harry," the man next to Hades spoke for the first time, "the world is a better place without him."
"And who are you?" Harry asked in a croaky voice while looking up at the man.
"I am Ares, the god of war." Ares said and stood up to shake Harry's hand. Harry stood up as well and shook Ares' hand.
Harry started pacing in front of the couch Hades was sitting on.
"How can I not be upset about killing a man, even it was Lucius sodding Malfoy," Harry said in an annoyed voice.
"I know it's not a pleasant thing to do but with the path the wizarding world is following I'm sorry to say it probably won't be the last time you will have to kill. Hades told me the Prophecy and basically it says, kill or be killed, I thought you would've understood that by now," Ares said.
"The Prophecy," Harry snorted, "if it is something Trelawney predicted it probably is never going to happen."
"Yes, I know it sounds unrealistic," Hades said "we have observed her some time after she made the Prophecy and she doesn't seem to have any talent for Divination as you wizards call it at all, but this one is real, I'm sure she has predicted something that came true."
"Now that you mention it, she predicted Voldemort's rebirth in my third year." Harry said and realized that the Prophecy was probably true as well.
"You see Harry, you will have to kill again eventually" Ares said.
"How can you be so casual about all this?" Harry yelled at Ares.
"I myself have done a lot of killing many millennia ago." Ares said while his shoulders slumped.
"Yeah yeah, the great war between the gods that destroyed Egyptian civilization." Harry said while plopping down in his chair.
"Actually no, it was even way before that, I meant millennia on earth. Around almost 150,000 years ago there was a civilization on this planet much like the one in the medieval ages. I was a young man in a kingdom that was at war with its neighbour. I was also a wizard, and we lived in harmony with the muggles back then and fought beside them. I was promoted to commander pretty quickly after a very gruesome fight with other wizards. I was the only one still alive out of 15 000 men and 500 wizards at the end of a three month battle. I always managed to survive, no matter what kind of situation I was in, and The Creator, the god who created heaven and earth, found me worthy enough to become a god. I, very much like yourself, am way more powerful than a normal wizard, all of the 'gods' you found here were once wizards, Light or Dark, that The Creator found worthy enough to make them gods," Ares said and suddenly he got a sad look on his face "He died in the war you referred to, the gods that killed him still burn in the deepest pits of hell today, and there hasn't been a new god since then."
"So what happened to this civilization?" Harry asked already expecting the answer.
"It was annihilated, there were two other wizards on the enemy's side as powerful as me, we fought each other for over 200 years,"
"Two hundred years, but you still look so young." Harry said.
"It's a wizard's power that decides how old he will become." Hades said and Harry nodded, now understanding why Dumbledore was still so energetic at his age, Harry didn't really now how old Dumbledore was but he was quite certain he was over 150 years old, and he wasn't even a god.
"It was gruesome," Ares continued as if he hadn't been interrupted "hundreds died in our wake, there was a Prophecy that predicted it would happen, but unlike you I didn't know of its existence at the time." Ares said as he slumped down into the chair next to Hades' while a pensieve much like the one Harry had been given appeared in the middle of the reading area, Ares took Hades' staff and used it to extract a memory on dropped it in the pensieve, he commanded it to play.
A shimmering white image of a man appeared above the pensieve and a voice much like Trelawney's when she was in a trance was heard from it:
When the red planet has passed fifteen times
the lord of war will rise
he shall meet the lord of thunder
and the lord of the sea
together they will reap destruction
in the world on which they clash
they will try to destroy one another
over one hundred passes
when the lord of all descends from his realm
he will end their path of destruction
and shall ascend them into
the realm of endless time
"He descended too late if you ask me." Ares said while a single tear escaped his eye.
"By the time he finally appeared in front of us the world was destroyed, Zeus and Poseidon stood alone while the rest of mankind stood behind me, we fought our final battlearound 216years after we had first encountered each other...
Flashback
Earth, 147 998 B.C.
Two forces stand opposite each other preparing for battle on the vast open plains of the East.
On one side of the field there are hundreds of millions of people led by a single person standing a few meters in front of the massive army.
On the other side are two persons standing next to each other while one of them summons great beasts of the deep from a nearby sea.
"Surrender now and I will promise you a quick death." Ares yelled to the two people preparing for battle.
A lightning from the sky that he could barely block with a powerful was his answer.
"Very well," he sighed.
He unsheathed his sword, a beautiful Katana made by the best weapon-smith there was, and heaved it above his head, the entire army prepared itself to charge forward, he dropped the sword and the entire army moved forward as one, confident on defeating the enemy.
The beast of the sea, giant dinosaur like creatures with giant teeth and great tails aiding them when they were swimming, killed hundreds of people at once while Zeus and Poseidon threw everything they had at Ares and his followers.
The battle lasted for two days and in the end only three people were still standing throwing huge blasts of raw power at each other.
Suddenly, all three of them dropped down on the ground from magical burn-out, they lay there, the three most powerful men on earth, panting on the scorched earth, Ares his sword at his side while the other two just lay there, unarmed.
Ares stood up slowly on trembling legs and stepped over to where Zeus and Poseidon were lying, dragging his sword behind him.
"I told you to surrender and die a quick death, but now, I will have to make you suffer until the end of time." Ares said in a croaky voice while standing in front of Zeus, he used every last ounce of strength he had left and lifted his sword from the ground and was about to begin Zeus' torture when a voice stopped him.
"Stop!" A voice roared and Ares looked behind him only to see a lone man standing there with a staff in his hand.
"Who do you think you are to stop what has to be done?" Ares demanded and suddenly found the strength to lash out at the man.
The man didn't even try to get out of the path of the razor-sharp edge of the sword, he just caught the sword between two fingers and blasted Ares away.
Ares landed next to Zeus who laughed "Well, it looks like were both gonna die in the end." He said "Ares," Zeus said in a suddenly very serious voice, "I realize now that I was wrong and you were right, I'm truly sorry for this war and all it's destruction."
"It's alright, we were both fighting for what we thought was right." Ares said and prepared himself for the end.
"Ah, I see you have realized you were wrong Ares," the stranger said "how about you Poseidon, do you realize your mistakes as well?"
There was a long pause and a weary sigh "Now that I think of it, yes, I can see now that I was wrong, all my beloved were killed by Ares and all I wanted was revenge, I'm sorry Ares, as you said, we all thought we were doing the right thing."
"Very well then," the man said clapping his hands together while smiling "it seems that instead of one new god there will be three."
The three men just looked at him in confusion from their positions, he saw their confusion and just smiled some more.
"Come, and I will show you." All four of them disappeared from the face of the earth.
End flashback
"...even after the destruction of man kind he smiled and told us that mankind would rise again, and he was right." Ares said and smiled.
"So Harry, who is this guest of yours," Hades asked trying to change the subject, "I you must trust her quite a lot if you would bring her here."
"Oh no, you're not changing the subject now Hades," Harry said with a faint smile "how did you end up here?"
Hades sighed and seemed to age a coupe of centuries just like Dumbledore sometimes.
"I was a Greek sorcerer when the Greek civilization was just starting to develop, I as well possessed great powers but used them for evil instead of for good." He said while he closed his eyes and shuddered at the memory he was about to tell. "I was obsessed with demonic creatures and had found some manuscripts describing a..." but he was interrupted the door leading to the bedroom clattering against the wall and a very angry voice filled the room.
"Harry James Potter, you'd better explain, NOW!"
Author notes: Here it is, chapter 13(and they say this number stands for bad luck, this chapter was even done written than any other.). I'm sorry to say this but I decided to stop writing on this story. JUST KIDDING, now put down your wand or at least stop aiming it at me. What I meant to say was that the next chapter make take a little longer to complete and with my upcoming exams it could be at least two weeks I'm sorry to say. 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. Now, I will stop writing if you people don't review and I'm not kidding about this one, okay, maybe I am, till next chapter.
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