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of the characters they all belong J. K. Rowling
Changing The Hands Of Time
Chapter 1
"Can't I Potter " said a high cold voice
Harry Potter opened his eyes
Tall, thin Black hooded his terrible snakelike face white and gaunt, his scarlet slit pupiled eyes staring ... Lord Voldemort had appeared in the middle of the hall, his wand pointing his wand directly at Harry who stood frozen quite unable to move.
"So you've smashed my prophecy?" said Voldemort softly, staring at Harry with those pitiless red eyes. "No Bella his is not lying... I can see the truth looking at me from his worthless mind... Months of preparation, months of effort... and my Death Eaters let Harry Potter thwart me AGAIN..."
"Master, I am sorry, I knew not, I was fighting the Animagus Black!" sobbed Bellatrix, flinging her self down at Voldemort's feet as he paced slowly nearer. "Master you should know---. "
"Be quiet Bella " said Voldemort dangerously "I shall deal with you in a moment. Do you think I have entered the Ministry of Magic to hear your sniveling apologies?"
"But master --- he is here --- he is below "
Voldemort paid no attention
"I have nothing more to say to you Potter " he said quietly, "You have irked me too often for too long. AVADA KEDARVA!"
Harry had not even opened his mouth to resist. His mind was blank, his wand pointing uselessly to the floor.
But the headless statue of the wizard in the fountain has sprung alive, leaping from is plinth, and landed on the floor with crash between Harry and Voldemort. The spell merely glanced off its chest as the statue flung outs its arms, protecting Harry
"What--?" said Voldemort staring around, And then breathed, "Dumbledore."
Harry looked behind him his heart pounding. Dumbledore was standing in front of the golden gates.
Voldemort raised his wand and sent another jet of green light at Dumbledore who turned and was gone in a whirling of his cloak; next second he had reappeared behind Voldemort and waved his wand toward the remnants of the fountain; the other statue sprang to life too. The statue of the witch ran Bellatrix, who screamed and sent spell streaming uselessly of its chest before it dived at her, pinning her to the floor. Meanwhile, the goblin and the house-elf scuttled toward the fireplace set along the wall and the one armed Centaur galloped at Voldemort who vanished and reappeared by the pool. The headless statue thrust Harry backward away from the fight, as Dumbledore advanced on Voldemort and the Golden Centaur centered around them both.
"It was foolish to come here tonight, Tom, " said Dumbledore calmly "The Aurors are on their way--- "
"By which time I shall be gone, and you dead!" spat Voldemort. He sent another killing curse at Dumbledore but missed, instead hitting the security guard's desk, which burst into flame.
Dumbledore flicked his own wand. The force of the spell that emanated from it was such that Harry, though shielded by his stone guard, felt his hair stand on end as it passed and this time Voldemort was forced to conjure a shinning silver shield out of thin air. The spell whatever it was caused no visible damage to the shield, though a deep gonglike not reverberated from it, and oddly chilling sound....
"You do not seek to kill me, Dumbledore?" called Voldemort, his scarlet eyes narrowed over the top of the shield, "Above such brutality are you?"
"We both know that there are other ways of destroying a man Tom " Dumbledore said calmly continuing to walk toward Voldemort as though he had not a fear in the world, as though nothing had happened to interrupt his stroll in the hall. "Merely taking your life would not satisfy me, I admit --- "
"There is nothing worse to fear than death Dumbledore!" snarled Voldemort
"You're quite wrong," Dumbledore still closing in upon Voldemort and speaking lightly as though they were discussing the matter over drinks, Harry felt scared to see him walking along, undefended, shieldless. He wanted to cry out a warning, but his headless guard kept shunting him backwards towards the wall blocking his every attempt to try and get out from behind it "Indeed, your failure to understand that there are things much worse than death has always been your greatest weakness--- "
Another jet of green light flew from behind the silver shield. This time it was the one-armed centaur; galloping in front of Dumbledore, that took the blast and shattered into a hundred pieces, but before the fragment had even hit the floor Dumbledore had drawn back his wand and waved it as though brandishing a whip. A long flame flew from the tip; it wrapped itself around Voldemort, shield and all. For the moment, it seemed Dumbledore had won, but the fiery rope became a serpent, which relinquished its hold upon Voldemort at once and turned hissing furiously, to face Dumbledore.
Voldemort vanished. The snake reared from the floor, ready to strike—
There was a burst of flame in midair above Dumbledore just as Voldemort reappeared standing on the plinth in the middle of the pool where so recently to five statues had stood.
"Look out! " Harry yelled
But even as he shouted, one more jet of green light had flown at Dumbledore from Voldemort's wand and the snake and struck—
Fawks swooped, down in front of Dumbledore opened his beak wide, and swallowed the jet of green light whole. He burst into flame and fell to the floor, small, wrinkles, and flightless. At the same moment, Dumbledore brandishing his wand in one long, fluid movement--- the snake, which had been and instant to sinking its fangs into him, flew high into the air and vanished in a whisp of dark smoke; the water in the pool rose up and covered Voldemort like a cocoon of molten glass—
For a few seconds Voldemort was visible only as a dark, rippling, faceless figure shimmering and indistinct upon the plinth clearly, struggling to throw off the suffocating mass—
Then he was gone, and the water fell with a crash back into the pool, sloping wildly over both sides, drenching the polished floor.
"MASTER!" screamed Bellatrix
Sure it was over, sure Voldemort had decided to flee, Harry made to run out from his statue guard, but Dumbledore bellowed.
"Stay where you are Harry!"
For the first time, Dumbledore sounded frightened. Harry could not see why. The hall was quite empty but for themselves, the sobbing Bellatrix still trapped under her statue, and the tiny baby Fawks croaking feebly on the floor—
And then Harry's scar burst open. He knew he was dead: it was pain beyond imagining, pain past endurance---
He was gone from the hall, he was looking in the coils of a creature with red eyes, so tightly bound that Harry did not know where his body ended and the creatures began. The were fused together, bound by pain, and there was no escape---
And when the creature spoke it used Harry's mouth so that in his agony he felt his jaw move...
"Kill me now, Dumbledore..."
Blinding and dying, every part of him screaming for release, Harry felt the creature use him again...
"If pain is nothing Dumbledore kill the boy..."
Let the pain stop Harry thought. Let him kill us...End it, Dumbledore...Death is nothing compared to this...
And I'll see Sirius again...
And as Harry's heart filled with emotion, the creatures coils loosened, the pain was gone, Harry was lying facedown on the floor, his glasses gone, shivering as though he lay upon ice, not wood....
Changing The Hands Of Time
Chapter 1
"Can't I Potter " said a high cold voice
Harry Potter opened his eyes
Tall, thin Black hooded his terrible snakelike face white and gaunt, his scarlet slit pupiled eyes staring ... Lord Voldemort had appeared in the middle of the hall, his wand pointing his wand directly at Harry who stood frozen quite unable to move.
"So you've smashed my prophecy?" said Voldemort softly, staring at Harry with those pitiless red eyes. "No Bella his is not lying... I can see the truth looking at me from his worthless mind... Months of preparation, months of effort... and my Death Eaters let Harry Potter thwart me AGAIN..."
"Master, I am sorry, I knew not, I was fighting the Animagus Black!" sobbed Bellatrix, flinging her self down at Voldemort's feet as he paced slowly nearer. "Master you should know---. "
"Be quiet Bella " said Voldemort dangerously "I shall deal with you in a moment. Do you think I have entered the Ministry of Magic to hear your sniveling apologies?"
"But master --- he is here --- he is below "
Voldemort paid no attention
"I have nothing more to say to you Potter " he said quietly, "You have irked me too often for too long. AVADA KEDARVA!"
Harry had not even opened his mouth to resist. His mind was blank, his wand pointing uselessly to the floor.
But the headless statue of the wizard in the fountain has sprung alive, leaping from is plinth, and landed on the floor with crash between Harry and Voldemort. The spell merely glanced off its chest as the statue flung outs its arms, protecting Harry
"What--?" said Voldemort staring around, And then breathed, "Dumbledore."
Harry looked behind him his heart pounding. Dumbledore was standing in front of the golden gates.
Voldemort raised his wand and sent another jet of green light at Dumbledore who turned and was gone in a whirling of his cloak; next second he had reappeared behind Voldemort and waved his wand toward the remnants of the fountain; the other statue sprang to life too. The statue of the witch ran Bellatrix, who screamed and sent spell streaming uselessly of its chest before it dived at her, pinning her to the floor. Meanwhile, the goblin and the house-elf scuttled toward the fireplace set along the wall and the one armed Centaur galloped at Voldemort who vanished and reappeared by the pool. The headless statue thrust Harry backward away from the fight, as Dumbledore advanced on Voldemort and the Golden Centaur centered around them both.
"It was foolish to come here tonight, Tom, " said Dumbledore calmly "The Aurors are on their way--- "
"By which time I shall be gone, and you dead!" spat Voldemort. He sent another killing curse at Dumbledore but missed, instead hitting the security guard's desk, which burst into flame.
Dumbledore flicked his own wand. The force of the spell that emanated from it was such that Harry, though shielded by his stone guard, felt his hair stand on end as it passed and this time Voldemort was forced to conjure a shinning silver shield out of thin air. The spell whatever it was caused no visible damage to the shield, though a deep gonglike not reverberated from it, and oddly chilling sound....
"You do not seek to kill me, Dumbledore?" called Voldemort, his scarlet eyes narrowed over the top of the shield, "Above such brutality are you?"
"We both know that there are other ways of destroying a man Tom " Dumbledore said calmly continuing to walk toward Voldemort as though he had not a fear in the world, as though nothing had happened to interrupt his stroll in the hall. "Merely taking your life would not satisfy me, I admit --- "
"There is nothing worse to fear than death Dumbledore!" snarled Voldemort
"You're quite wrong," Dumbledore still closing in upon Voldemort and speaking lightly as though they were discussing the matter over drinks, Harry felt scared to see him walking along, undefended, shieldless. He wanted to cry out a warning, but his headless guard kept shunting him backwards towards the wall blocking his every attempt to try and get out from behind it "Indeed, your failure to understand that there are things much worse than death has always been your greatest weakness--- "
Another jet of green light flew from behind the silver shield. This time it was the one-armed centaur; galloping in front of Dumbledore, that took the blast and shattered into a hundred pieces, but before the fragment had even hit the floor Dumbledore had drawn back his wand and waved it as though brandishing a whip. A long flame flew from the tip; it wrapped itself around Voldemort, shield and all. For the moment, it seemed Dumbledore had won, but the fiery rope became a serpent, which relinquished its hold upon Voldemort at once and turned hissing furiously, to face Dumbledore.
Voldemort vanished. The snake reared from the floor, ready to strike—
There was a burst of flame in midair above Dumbledore just as Voldemort reappeared standing on the plinth in the middle of the pool where so recently to five statues had stood.
"Look out! " Harry yelled
But even as he shouted, one more jet of green light had flown at Dumbledore from Voldemort's wand and the snake and struck—
Fawks swooped, down in front of Dumbledore opened his beak wide, and swallowed the jet of green light whole. He burst into flame and fell to the floor, small, wrinkles, and flightless. At the same moment, Dumbledore brandishing his wand in one long, fluid movement--- the snake, which had been and instant to sinking its fangs into him, flew high into the air and vanished in a whisp of dark smoke; the water in the pool rose up and covered Voldemort like a cocoon of molten glass—
For a few seconds Voldemort was visible only as a dark, rippling, faceless figure shimmering and indistinct upon the plinth clearly, struggling to throw off the suffocating mass—
Then he was gone, and the water fell with a crash back into the pool, sloping wildly over both sides, drenching the polished floor.
"MASTER!" screamed Bellatrix
Sure it was over, sure Voldemort had decided to flee, Harry made to run out from his statue guard, but Dumbledore bellowed.
"Stay where you are Harry!"
For the first time, Dumbledore sounded frightened. Harry could not see why. The hall was quite empty but for themselves, the sobbing Bellatrix still trapped under her statue, and the tiny baby Fawks croaking feebly on the floor—
And then Harry's scar burst open. He knew he was dead: it was pain beyond imagining, pain past endurance---
He was gone from the hall, he was looking in the coils of a creature with red eyes, so tightly bound that Harry did not know where his body ended and the creatures began. The were fused together, bound by pain, and there was no escape---
And when the creature spoke it used Harry's mouth so that in his agony he felt his jaw move...
"Kill me now, Dumbledore..."
Blinding and dying, every part of him screaming for release, Harry felt the creature use him again...
"If pain is nothing Dumbledore kill the boy..."
Let the pain stop Harry thought. Let him kill us...End it, Dumbledore...Death is nothing compared to this...
And I'll see Sirius again...
And as Harry's heart filled with emotion, the creatures coils loosened, the pain was gone, Harry was lying facedown on the floor, his glasses gone, shivering as though he lay upon ice, not wood....