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Mindstorm

Chapter 5: Discovering a New Self

I am dreaming he thought.

I must be, this is so wonderful.

It was exactly like in their fourth year. The ice sculptures were there and the Weird Sisters band was playing on stage exactly like at the Yule Ball. But with one difference. He had invited Hermione and they had gone to the Ball together.

His date was bringing the refreshments and he expected her to come and sit by him. But she ignored him and kept walking towards Victor Krum's table.

"NOOO!" shouted Ron as he felt all alone and miserable.

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What is that place? It's wonderful.

She was in a huge library stretching out for miles. Millions of books everywhere she looked. How much knowledge was held in this place. She started looking around each book title more rare and magnificent than the last. But then she heard a weird noise. It was crackling. The crackling of fire. And then she smelled the smoke. Turning around she saw the books on fire and she heard a horrible voice say: "You do not deserve our knowledge Mudblood!"

She turned around and started running away from the flames but even though she ran as fast as she could the flames seemed to be reaching her.

"Help! HELP!" she heard someone say. She turned at a corner and found herself at an area that resembled the Gryffindor common room. In the middle two boys were trying to put out the fire that surrounded them. It was to no avail however because they were retreating constantly backwards.

She grabbed her wand and said the incantation loudly "Aqua Eructo!" but nothing came out of her wand, instead it caught fire causing the girl to drop it down in shock.

As she looked up again she saw that the two boys have stopped fighting the flames that were now towering. The red-haired boy looked at her and told her angrily: "It is all your fault Hermione" said Ron "If you weren't a Mudblood this wouldn't have happened. I hate you!" said Ron as the flames swallowed him and Harry leaving nothing behind.

"No, no… I-I tried b-but I couldn't do it." said Hermione weakly as she fell to her knees and the inferno devoured her.

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She was walking in a lush green forest, birds chirping on the trees, her red hair hung loosely on her shoulders. She felt something calling her from the inside of the forest. She didn't know what it was but she had a nagging feeling that it was something that she wanted.

She was walking for a while and was looking at the blue sky when she saw someone in front of her. Standing there was the Boy-Who-Lived, Harry Potter smiling at her.

"Harry, what are you doing here?" she asked but he didn't answer. Ginny stood watching him and he suddenly started changing. His emerald green eyes turned to red and his pupils became slits. The man standing in front of her now was Tom Riddle.

"Ginny, how nice to see you again!" he said with a maniacal grin on his face.

She turned to run but the soft grass beneath her feet turned into stony vines that grabbed her legs and pulled her towards him. When the vines had dragged her close to him, he kneeled besides her and looked at her.

It wasn't Tom. It was Harry who had changed into a darkness rivaling Voldemort.

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"What do you mean saying that you are me?" shouted Harry to the darknes surrounding him even though the voice was coming from his own head.

'Don't panic' said the voice 'I mean no harm to you. Actually I'm here to help you. I am something like a second personality of yours. You see everyone has a good and an evil side. Most of the time they are combined and form the will of someone. However, sometimes a person, or more specifically a wizard, with great power can form two wills, one of darkness and one of light. I am your dark side but I am not evil, mind you. I may not be able to perform a Patronous spell but I have great knowledge in the Dark Arts.'

Harry just stood there hearing what the voice was saying wondering if he was going mad. 'Now you must get out of here. If you could let me take over for a while I can get us out of here in just a minute'

"No!" answered Harry "I won't leave my body to some voice in my head that I just met, I meant heard, no… AGHHH! I must stop this or I will go mad. Now just tell me what to do."

'Well Ok but you should start trusting me. I was the one who warned you about the tentacle coming from behind you, you know.'

"That was you?" asked Harry.

'Of course it was me, you dunghead! Well, enough with the chit chat. To get out of here you must find its weak spot. Trace the surface around you and when you feel a magic vibe blast it with your mind. It's wandless magic so be careful.'

Harry started feeling the surface around him. It felt just like a wall and Harry was getting impatient when he felt it. It was a weak ripple at first but as he got closer the power was getting stronger by the second. When Harry was sure that he was on its weak spot he concentrated so that he could wandless magic. They had been taught on how to do it. Harry remembered Professor Lupin telling that offensive magic required anger and sorrow.

'Good' thought Harry 'I have plenty of those.' He recalled Sirius's death and the fight at the graveyard, even though these memories were very painful to him, and on top of them placed the thought of Umbridge and everything she had done to him. He felt himself full with power and extended his hands. The wave of energy shattered the dark material and Harry fell to solid earth.

'Excellent! I knew you had it in you' proclaimed the voice.

"Oh really?" asked Harry who was panting on the ground. "Just a while ago you thought I couldn't do it."

'I never said that you couldn't do it, I just said that I could do it better'

"Never mi-WHERE THE HELL AM I?" he shouted when he looked up.

'My god, how can you be so dumb? I told you already: IN-YOUR-MIND!'

"That's how my mind looks like?" asked Harry to nobody in particular. In front of him lay a barren wasteland. The sky was black and thunders caused the place to light up every few seconds. A bit away from were he was standing stood a massive black tower with ominous dark clouds gathered at the top.

'Come on, are you gonna continue gazing at it for any longer? Look around you a bit.'

Harry looked and saw weird creatures, some made of the same black substance as his former cell and others looking like weird abominations.

'Fight them!'

Harry started gathering his strength and used weak spells against the creatures. He knocked some of them back but after a while his spells grew weaker and the monsters started gaining on him.

'You are useless let me show you how it's done.' Harry felt a surge of energy go through him and completely relaxed it was only after a while that he realized that he couldn't control his body anymore. Instead he was watching himself, like he was a ghost. His body fell down and it started convulsing. Then it was covered in a black sphere.

'Are you doing this' he thought realizing he couldn't speak. 'Just watch' answered the voice. 'Like I can do something else.' thought Harry.

It was then that the sphere blew up. The creatures closest to it were thrown away by the force of the explosion. In the middle was standing Harry but he looked completely different. First of all his clothes had changed. He was wearing now black trousers, a sleeveless black shirt with silver lines that formed a snake and a black cape. His hair were longer reaching his shoulders and his arms had black tattoos on them along with silver gauntlets. The last difference was in Harry's eyes however. They were now a crimson red.

Harry rushed forwards then and he slashed the first monster in front of him with two silver swords that he had had just conjured from thin air. He continued slashing the others nearby with immense skill and unnaturally fast reflexes and speed. After a while of fighting however he became surrounded, he however didn't seem to care. Suddenly a cold wind blew and the creatures around him were chopped in pieces. If one could see inslow motion he would see myriads of knives appearing around Harry and then being thrown outwards. Most of the creatures were now dead but one remained still. It was a hulking beast at least two meters taller than Harry. He just stood watching the beast calculating his enemy's abilities. With a sudden move he swept forward and before the beast could react he ran up on it, vaulted over it and slashed multiple times before falling on the ground behind it. The monster sat motionless and then collapsed in a bloody mess. Harry then felt an excruciating pain and he was once again in his body which had returned to normal.

"Wow!" was the only thing Harry could say after watching all this.

A/N: Thanks to my reviewers! This has been the longest chapter to write yet and they will get bigger.