Diary of Harry Potter
It's been over a week since I have had the opportunity to write in here I've been so busy training with Vaynel, and helping Hermione and Ron organize the D.A meeting that is going to be this weekend and going on raids. We are still having trouble figuring out how many people will actually show up so we have no idea how many to prepare for. Dumbledore has arranged for the majority of the Order of the Phoenix to be joining us. I still have yet to find an opportunity to discuss the physic connection between Ginny and I to Vaynel, It's honestly slipped mind until I read the last entry in this book.
The morning after I wrote my last entry Ron and Hermione were helping Mrs. Weasley in the kitchen. As I started down the stairs from my room there was a crash that sounded light dishes and Hermione screamed, my heart sped up immediately and I ran down the rest of the stairs. I looked around in the kitchen to see Hermione backed up against the far wall with her hands over her mouth staring the opposite direction at the fire place which seemed to have a human head swirling around in the roaring green flames. Mrs. Weasley was muttering to herself and with a flick of her wand the broken dishes were mended, Ron was too busy trying to keep from laughing at his distraught girlfriend to offer much comfort. The head stopped spinning and Remus Lupin looked back at us through the fire. Hermione blinked a few times and lowered her hands to reveal and very small smile and Ron lost his hold and laughed at her.
"It's not funny, Ronald!" She scolded and slapped him lightly on the arm. I smiled at them before looking back into the fire.
"All right there Harry?" he asked me with a rather tired grin.
"All right, you?"
"Fine fine….I have a message from Dumbledore for you." He started, waiting for the laughing behind me to cease which it soon did with the firm expression of Mrs. Weasley. "The Aurors are going on a raid tonight and he would like you to accompany them in their task. At eleven sharp they will be at the Burrow to pick you up and tell you what the situation is." He did not seem happy about having to tell me this, apparently he did not approve of me being allowed on this mission.
"Harry I want you to be careful…I don't know where you are going to be going but---" he started to say looking at me with true concern.
"I'll be as careful as possible." I said and he nodded before turning his head in the fire to Mrs. Weasley.
"See you later Molly, Ron…Hermione." He said before the image of his face disappeared and the fire place was empty.
"They can't be serious!" Hermione said in a high pitched voice just beating Mrs. Wesley in voicing her own displeasure in my involvement with the raid. "Harry, it's too dangerous!" she cried out.
"I agree, Harry you should tell them you don't want to go."
"Where is Harry going?" came a voice from the stairs and I looked up to see Ginny standing on the last of the stairs looking down at all of us. Our eyes met for a moment and a soft flush came to her cheeks as I smiled at her.
"They want Harry go to on a raid." Ron said with a sour note, "You get to have all the fun, mate." He said turning and looking at me with a covetous expression and for the second time that day Hermione hit him. "Oy! Why do you keep hitting me? Come on it's can't be that dangerous! Dad does them all the time!" He said in his defense as Ginny giggled at them both and sat at the table and pulled some pancakes on her plate.
"But Harry is not a fully trained wizard!" Hermione said sitting beside Ginny and stabbing a sausage with a fork.
"Well obviously Dumbledore thinks he is ready, and it's not often that Dumbledore is wrong. Plus I trust him enough to think that he wouldn't put Harry in any situation that he would be unable to handle." Ginny said wisely before sipping her juice. Everyone in the room stared at her and I beamed at her, it was nice to see that someone had confidence in me. She looked up , "What?" she asked everyone and her mom just took a deep breath then went back to her cooking.
"Eat up, Harry Dear. You'll need you energy for tonight." She said though her tone was not a very pleasant one.
After breakfast, as usual , Vaynel was waiting for me in the paddock, sword on his hip and his arms crossed over his chest as he leaned against the rotting fence.
"You wont need that today." He said as I headed to the shed to get my sword, confused I went over to where he was sitting and stood beside him. "You're going to be doing something different. I was informed this morning that you are to be assisting in a mission from the Order, so I am going to have to move up this lesson because it is a very critical one."
"I am guessing you don't think I should be going tonight, then?" I asked in a casual tone.
"No, I am glad that they finally starting to see that you are an adult and a very powerful wizard, it is control that you lack but I believe that when in a stressful situation now you will be better prepared to handle your powers, emotions , and thoughts." He said moving off of the fence and lowering his arms. "I know that you are unable to apparate as of yet because you are not of age, which is a great disadvantage if you need to escape quickly, even in your animagus form you still do not have an instant escape." He said walking around in a small circle as I sat there watching him. "So you are simply going to have to learn to be invisible without help of a cloak or any other device."
"What?" I said startled.
"Did you not know it was possible?" he asked in a lightly surprised tone.
"Well, No..I mean I knew Dumbledore could he told me once…but I thought only really powerful wizards could do that."
Vaynel tilted his head and studied me before smiling, "Harry, You are a really powerful wizard. One of the most powerful I have ever encountered."
I only blinked staring at him then smiled, "Thanks."
We got to work after that, the spell was not one that I would consider easy, true it is just a word that you say inside your head but this one takes as much concentration as a patronus and much more magical energy than I would have expected. By the time the sun began to set I had only managed to make half of my self invisible.
"Okay we are going to try this one more time…now focus!"
I closed my eyes and thought the incantation as best I could.
From the fence someone began laughing, which was soon joined by two other voice. Ginny, Hermione and Ron were watching and laughing at me. Vaynel and I were both very frustrated by this time.
"What's so funny!" I called out. "This isn't really easy you know!" my temper getting the better of me until I looked down at myself. I had once again managed to make half of myself vanish, which included my right arm, left leg, one eye brow and my hair. "Oh…" I said with a disgruntled expression.
Vaynel sighed as the laughing continued and he shook his head smirking, "Alright…well we will just have to hope that you wont need to escape quickly this time." He said with an exasperated air just as Mrs. Weasley called to us from the door that it was time for dinner.
"Good Luck tonight." Vaynel said before turning around and walking the opposite direction. Ginny came running out to the paddock, "Are you going to fix yourself?" she asked me with a raised eyebrow. Smiling I called off the spell and my limbs returned to their visual state.
"Where does he go, do you think?" Ron asked from the fence.
"Dunno." I said watching the retreating back of my trainer as he walked away from us.
After dinner we were all sitting in the small living room , Ron and Ginny were playing a very heated game of Wizards Chess, Hermione was reading her new charms book for the next year, and I was sitting there staring off into outer space.
"Are you alright, Harry Dear?" Mrs. Weasley asked with a fond expression from over her knitting.
"Yes…yes I'm fine….just.."
"Nervous , Mate?" Ron asked not taking his eyes from the chess board.
"Yeah kind of…I think I would feel better about it if I knew where I was going and what I was going to be doing."
"I'm sure you'll be fine, Harry." Hermione said looking up from her book and giving me a small smile. I looked down at my watch, it was five after. "They are late."
"Oh they will be along any moment. Oh!" Mrs. Weasley said looking up at the clock in which there was a dial for each member of the Weasley family, Mr. Weasley's hand moved from Work, to traveling, to home in a matter of seconds.
With in the next minute Mr. Weasley walked into his house through the kitchen door. Mrs. Weasley got up instantly, probably to go and fix him something to eat.
"No no, not time for that love…is Harry ready?" Mr. Weasley said from the kitchen and my head shot up, I was going to be going with Ron's dad to the raid? Suddenly it didn't seem like it was going to be a bad trip, where ever we were going.
"Are you going with me then?" I asked as I stood from my seat, the others standing with me and looking at the eldest Weasley with hopeful expressions.
"Yes yes…10 of us tonight, including you Harry."
"But where are we---"
"You'll find out soon enough my boy, now off we go." He said and turned back into the kitchen.
I turned to Ginny who flew into my arms and gave me a huge hug, "take care of yourself." She said as she looked up into my eyes and I smiled. Ron watched us with raised eyebrows and Hermione only smiled.
I released her and Ron shook my hand, "Good Luck mate."
Hermione and I only looked at one another and I nodded, knowing that she didn't approve of this I knew she would offer no advice or best wishes, but I knew she felt them. I turned and pulled my cloak on over my clothes and ran to follow Mr. Weasley.
I was surprised to see Tonks, Lupin and Moony already waiting for us out side in the field where we normally played Quidditch.
They all seemed very somber and tired but they all smiled and nodded at me in welcome.
"Ready then?" Moony asked in his raspy voice.
"Where are we going?" I asked not looking at him as his magical eye seemed to look straight through me. "And what exactly are we doing?"
"We are searching for any evidence of magic, dark or other wise, and any clues as to Voldemorts whereabouts. We are going to be searching a very old run down home, but we must do it as quickly and quietly as possible." Lupin said as Tonks picked up an empty bottle from the ground.
"Since you can't apparate we have to use a port key. The Aurors should be waiting for us, we are right on schedule. Ready?" Mr. Weasley asked me and I nodded.
We all touched the bottle and in an instant I felt the familiar tug at my navel and I was swirling in a blaze of dark colors. For the first time I landed on my feet using a port key. The ground beneath me was soft and I realized it was grass just as two people fell to the ground beside me and Lupin and Moony landed on their feet. As Mr. Weasley brushed off his rear and Tonks was helped up by Lupin I looked around us. Where ever we were it was a good distance away from the Burrow for now the moon was fuller and the stars were less bright.
We stood on a small hill that over looked the village below us, the air was thick with moisture signaling the dew that would cover the homes by the next morning.
"Come….we must hurry." Moony said as he pulled the hood of his black cloak over his head and we all did the same, then followed him into a thick patch of trees. One of them lit their wand to guide our way and we all moved swiftly through the woods, the sound of a branch breaking behind me startled me into stopping and I turned around directing my wand as though there was someone behind me. There was a sound like a whisper and I realized the others had stopped too and were pointing their wands and looking around them. Two of them I recognized from the group of Aurors who had collected me from Privet Drive in my fifth year but I could not remember their names. The two groups of wizards nodded at one another in greeting.
"No time for introductions, lets move on." Moody said in his harsh whisper and turned back to the trail in the patch of woods.
"Alright there, Weasley?" came a voice and we all spun to the location of the speaker when Kingsley Shaklebolt came into a patch of moon light. Four black cloaked and white robed aurors filled in behind him their wands held at their sides. Not long after meeting the group of aurors we came out to the edge of the village.
"Wait here." Moony said as he walked forward moving in and out of the shadows. He lifted his hand and the lights from the street lamps flew into what looked like a small lighter, I realized it was one of the Put-outers. Once the street was void of all light we moved down the street sides in pairs, whispering and signaling until finally we turned down a road. There was not a single light on down the road and at the very end of it was what looked like a very old, very destroyed mansion.
Once again we moved on in the darkness, the only sounds around us were the swish of our cloaks and the sound of our feet on the road. Moony signaled us all to stop and we did so, watching for the signal to continue after he scanned the house with his magical eye. He waved us forward to the broken fence that had once surrounded the house.
We were all huddled together as he spoke, "This is definatlly the place, there are wards and numerous curses and protections around this house, lets split up and see if we can find a way in." we all nodded, the group of aurors ducked and moved around the left side of the house the others and I moved around the right. As we turned the corner I couldn't help but gasp as we ended up right in a grave yard.
"I..I know this place…" I said with wide eyes, "This is where Voldemort came back…this is where Cedric died." I said walking past several headstones.
"What?" Lupin asked with wide eyes looking around, "You mean…he was here…"
"Yes…this house…he must have been…." Mr. Weasley said then stopped, "What if he is still here?" he asked Lupin with a very worried expression. Thinking that this might have been possible my fist tightened around my wand and I felt a rush of excitement, what if this was my chance to finally rid the world of Voldemort?
To our left someone whistled low and soft, we all turned our wands instantly to the direction of the sound then lowered it when we realized it was the signal.
"They must have found a way in." Lupin said and moved to the other side of the house, where Moony and Tonks were standing beside an open door.
Tonks smiled at us a bit and shrugged as she imitated herself leaning against the door and the door opening, her clumsiness had actually managed to be useful. I started to go into the house when Moony stopped me with a hand and moved ahead of me. With a sigh I followed the rest of the members of the Order and the five aurors into the house, the wood beneath our feet creaking under our weight. The entire house was covered in dust and looked as though it had not be inhabited for hundreds of years. As our group spread out through the house looking for their clues I did the same. It was not long before I realized that I was alone in what was once probably a very handsome living room, since we had not been attacked yet I assumed that we were alone in the house and I started examining small dust covered things laying around the house. I thought it strange that a house that had been vacant for so long would still have furniture inside it, not only that but it looked almost as though no one had touched the house since the last inhabitants and I thought for a fleeting moment that this had been a total waste of time.
With a sigh I turned and started to head into the next room when my cloak caught on something knocking it to the floor with a soft thud. I turned and picked up the small dust covered object to see that it was a silver goblet, with the edge of my cloak I whipped the dust from it's surface to reveal the name "Riddle" engraved in the metal. In an instant my heart leapt into my throat and I turned quickly to inform the others and found a wand pointed directly in my chest.
"Stupify!" he said and I went flying through the room slamming hard into the wall behind me and I felt something in my side snap, searing pain coming from that sound and I knew I had broken a rib or two.
I coughed painfully as I pulled myself to my fours.
I heard each of his steps as he moved slowly closer, "You're pathetic, Potter." He said as he came to my side and I looked up into his silver eyes and the hatred inside them drove into my heart more than the spell had. "I could kill you right now if I wanted to…" he said putting his wand tip under my chin as I continued to fight for the ability to move and breath.
"And believe me I do want to." He said pushing his wand into my neck so, his aura was blocked from me as was his mind, I could only feel the true hatred he held for me inside his voice. "But as I have said before, you are for the dark lord…but don't worry my friends will happily take out the rest of your little gang. Of course, this doesn't mean that I can't have a little fun with you while you are being distracted from saving your friends." He said and I looked up at him with wide eyes, "Crucio!" I screamed as the spell hit me squarely once more, the pain in my side intensifying by ten and my body curled into it's self, all I saw was red as my body was wracked with the insane amounts of pain the spell caused. The screams that filled my ears I knew to be my own. Hours it seemed he tortured me with the spell until my mind began to wish that I would die, and then he stopped, leaving me shuddering ,coughing and gasping for breath as I lay at his mercy on the floor.
"Yes…do you like screaming for me, Potter?" he laughed darkly.
"Tell me, Did you all really think that the Dark Lord would just sit around waiting for you to show up and trap him?" he laughed again, a cold bitter sound and he continued to drive his wand into my throat.
Though I had given up on all hope of the love I shared with my now torturer being real I couldn't help but be shocked and pained by the strength of his hatred for me, it was in this instant that I knew I hated him as much as well. He had raped Hermione, he had tried to kill me and Pansy, he had tricked me into loving him…he was more evil than I had ever anticipated.
I moved once again to my fours , despite the complaints of my sore and tired muscles, and looked up with matching hatred into his silver eyes.
"Now it's time that you meet your fate….and I shall be rewarded by the lord for bringing you to him." He said with pride.
"You know what, Malfoy?" I started in a weak voice that gradually grew stronger, "You talk too much." I said and collected the last of my strength and focus, "Sparisca!" I thought closing my eyes and I felt a warm liquid like sensation flow over my entire form and I rolled away from my previous location.
Yelling in frustration he sent a curse at where I was, then another ten feet above my head. I moved invisible, clutching my side, through the room watching as he sent curses flying in every direction screaming in rage. There was a crash up stairs and I knew that there had to be other fights going on up stairs.
"Come out, Potter…I will find you one way or another…I will burn this whole house down if I have to." He said sending curses through out the room with every other word. There was a very loud crash to the left and I saw with alarm that someone had been either thrown or had fallen through the stair case. Then with a rush of relief Mr. Weasley's face could be seen over the banister. "Oops…!" he said as Malfoy sent a curse at him and he dodged out of the way, not long after the scarred hand of Moony appeared and sent a curse flying back at Malfoy who used a protection spell and sent it flying back to the already broken stair case.
"Come on, Ferret, you can do better than that can't you?" Moody cried with a jovial tone.
There was a loud crack and three Death Eaters appeared before Malfoy, "We've got it lets go!" Bellatrix Lesgrange' voice said from under her hood.
"No! Potter is here!" he said turning around in the room as if I would have suddenly reappeared.
"We have our orders." A male voice said from another hood taking a daring step to Malfoy who looked very torn between staying and hunting me kill he killed me and following his orders.
"I swear Potter….I am going to get you and I will enjoy the day I watch you die." He said looking around the room one more time before he, and the other Death Eaters, apparated from the house.
"Harry! Harry? Where are you?" Tonks called out as she helped a limping Lupin through the dining room into the living room.
Either Moony or Mr. Weasley said "Repairo" over the broke stairs and they fixed themselves as well as could be expected with a dead Death Eater on top of them, who's body then fell down the remainder of the stairs and landed with a sick thud at their end. Moony and Mr. Weasley joined Lupin and Tonks in their search for me.
"Over there." Moody said , his magical eye obviously seeing right through my protection spell. Two of the aurors I did not know moved over to where I was just as I muttered, "Nox" and the spell ended.
One of them pulled me to my feet and I winced as pain racked my body, every muscle felt sore and used beyond repair, my side and lip were bleeding.
"Up ya go." An aurora with light brown hair and a kind looking face said as he let me lean my weight against him.
"I'm alright." I managed to say as, with his help, I made it outside. Tonks helped Lupin to sit down beside me.
"Well this was a total fiasco." One of the aurors with graying blond hair said as she sank down to the ground beside Lupin and I. "We were totally bombarded!" she exclaimed.
"I don't think that was the case, really?" Lupin said with a wince as he tried to get his ankle to a more relaxed position.
"What do you mean?" the brunette aurora who had helped me up earlier asked with wide eyes, "They obviously set us up! We were totally out numbered! You mean to say that you don't think this was a trap?"
"No. I don't think it was a trap." Lupin said. Mr. Weasley was looking very contemplative with his arms crossed over his chest and leaning against the house in the moonlight, Moody was looking around us as though waiting for us to make up our minds as to weather to not to leave while the others just watched the conversation with interest.
"What do you mean?" I asked Lupin turning to look at him.
"I think we just discovered where Voldemort has been hiding out."
"WHAT!" Everyone but Moody and Mr. Weasley said staring at Lupin as if he had lost his mind. But then I thought about it, the graveyard, the cup…
"I think you're right." I said looking up at the others around us. "This was the graveyard that he came back in, remember I was here. When he killed Cedric Diggory. And the cup…there was a cup in side with the name Riddle engrave into it. This must have been his family's house."
"Who's riddle?" one of the aurors asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Riddle was Voldemorts---" several of the people gasped at my saying his name which irritated me, "real name. Tom Riddle."
"So you think that he was here the whole time and when we showed up we caught him off guard and he barley escaped?" The blond witch asked beside Lupin who nodded.
"Something of that sort."
"Were any of you able to identify the Death Eaters? Besides Lestrange?"
Everyone replied in the negative.
"Malfoy." I said , looking down away from everyone's eyes.
"What?" Mr. Weasley asked, "But Lucius Malfoy is dead."
"Not Lucius…Draco Malfoy….he was the one I was fighting. He snuck right up behind me just as I had found the cup. He asked if we expected Voldemort to just be waiting for us…which means that he was here…and he ran just in time."
"But if Draco Malfoy is a Death Eater certainly he wont be allowed back at Hogwarts next year?" Kingsley said , speaking for the first time since we had met up with him.
"That , unfortunately is not our decision, it's Dumbledores." Lupin said and struggled to get to his feet.
Gasping in pain as Mr. Weasley assisted me I looked at Lupin in curiosity, "Even with all of us witnessing against him you think Dumbledore would still let him attend school?" I asked.
"You never know…but lets not worry about it now….lets get back to the burrow." Mr. Weasley said and he nodded to Kingsley.
"Don't forget to file the reports first thing in the morning Arthur…I will be sure to write to Dumbledore and the Minister as soon as I arrive to inform them of what happened tonight." Then he turned and looked at me with his dark brown eyes and gave me a smile, which startled me slightly, "You did good, Mr. Potter." He said and then with five separate loud cracks the five of the Aurors disapparated.
I didn't speak to anyone until we arrived back at the burrow, Mrs. Weasley was waiting up for us and was livid as she saw my condition. Stuffed with potions, healing charms, and two healed ribs I was forced to bed as she had some very colorful words with Mr. Weasley over the foolishness of Dumbledore and the aurors and demanded to know what had happened.
I didn't get to sleep though, like a true friend Ron was waiting for me on my bed to hear all of the details of the night, to which I only managed to get out about five minutes worth . His mom must have given me a sleeping potion for soon I was a sleep, despite Ron's complaints of wanting to hear the rest of it. In the morning I was bombarded with questions from Ron and Ginny, who wanted to know everything about it. Mrs. Weasley was in a foul mood all morning as was Hermione I guess they were both resisting the urge to tell me that I was not ready to go on the raid or 'I told you so'.
It's just after lunch now, Vaynel gave me the morning off I guess since he did not show up for our normal morning hours but I bet anything he will not be so kind as to do the same for the afternoon. I hope I will get the chance to tell him about the psychic thing between Ginny and I. I will write more later.