Alternative Tale: What would have happened..?
A/N: I hope you follow me to it and enjoy reading ti as much as I enjoy writing it. Due to lack of interest, AT is being abandoned in favour of a 7th book fic I have decided to write called Harry Potter and the Unknowable Objects . I hope you follow me to it and enjoy reading ti as much as I enjoy writing it.
Nevertheless, I understand that some of you might want to know how this story ends, and I personally hate it when fics are abandoned without an ending being given. So, here we go.
Sixth Year:
Harry and Dumbledore's strange behavior is eventually noticed, and the subject is broached. The two figure out why it is and a way to fix it. As it turns out, Voldemort is using an acute variation of Legilimency, which involves a spell he cast on the two wizards during the Dumbledore/Voldemort fight at the end of Order of the Phoenix.
Meanwhile, Ginny becomes a powerful combatant and impresses Armstrong a lot. Once Dumbledore is restored as Headmaster, Armstrong recruits Ginny into the Department of Mysteries.
Harry and Dumbledore finally lift the spell on them, after using magic of their own to quietly defy it for half the year. Voldemort becomes aware of the change and plans an attack on Hogwarts.
Hermione stumbles upon the method for creating Dementors and many long forgotten facts about the Patronus charm whilst researching dark rituals in an effort to assist Harry and Dumbledore with lifting their spell. She continues her research and informs Harry that she could have a method for killing Voldemort, since they doubt Avada Kedavra could work.
Voldemort finally leads the assault on Hogwarts in June. The assault is massive and the students and teachers fight gallantly to defend the castle from the Death Eaters, whilst Voldemort and Harry fight, one on one, in a bubble floating above the battle.
Eventually, Harry bests Voldemort, and decides to cast Avada Kedavra on him, just to see if it could kill him. It doesn't. However, Voldemort is once again in his spirit form. He and the Death Eaters quickly flee, and news reaches Harry in August that Voldemort has already regained his body once more.
Seventh Year:
There is a fight at the Ministry. The Order do not reach it in time to prevent casualties, but succeed in driving the Death Eaters away. In the fighting, the Directors of Research and Intelligence (Formerly Department of Mysteries) and Magical Law and Order perish. Harry rushes to the Bones residence to give Madame Bones's family the bad news, as Arthur Weasley becomes assistant Director of Magical Law and Order by default and Armstrong ascends to Director of Research and Intelligence by rank.
Harry comforts Susan, apparently Madame Bones's only living relative after her sister and brother-in-law died falling off a broom during the previous summer. Susan and Harry become very close and Harry continues to visit her as she gets over the fact that she is the last member of her family alive.
Arthur Weasley and Ron Weasley make a good team and the Agency of Magical Law and Order runs like clockwork. Meanwhile, Hermione enters into a cooperation with the experimental charms office to continue her research into the Patronus charm and the creation of Dementors.
R&I absorbs The Order of the Phoenix and begins covert operations to bring the Death Eaters and their activities to a halt. Harry joins Ginny on one major mission in which Severus Snape is killed for crimes against wizardkind and Peter Pettigrew is arrested to stand trial for the crimes Sirius was accused of, atrocities against mankind and to give information to R&I which they can use against Voldemort.
Harry and Susan get together and Harry is very happy with her. His hands-on approach to the war is appreciated by the Wizarding world and he is a much loved leader. He eventually goes public with his relationship with Susan and the wizarding world is delighted for them.
Hermione reaches her breakthrough at Christmas and explains to Harry that by thinking of terrible memories and speaking the incantation of the Patronus charm (Expecto Patronum). She also reveals that anyone who has cast Avada Kedavra in anything but a fair fight can be harmed by a Patronus.
For Voldemort, who is guilty of said crime thousands of times over, it would burn him to nothing. His soul and body would be destroyed utterly. Harry thanks Hermione and he, R&I and L&O start planning an assault in which Harry is to cast Expecto Patronum and kill Voldemort.
Peter Pettigrew is found guilty of all charges. All information R&I can use is extracted from him and he is sentenced to a long and painful death. He is placed for a week in the room containing a power at once greater and more terrible than death. As soon as he is released, he drops dead instantly. None mourn his passing, since he is responsible for Voldemort rising again, an atrocity against mankind according to his charges.
The assault takes place in July at a safe house Voldemort and his Death Eaters made much use of of. Thanks to the advanced combat techniques R&I and L&O had been learning, the Death Eaters are decimated. Ginny preys on them easily and thanks to her incredible movements, she is never hit by a major spell.
Voldemort is about to escape, Harry having been trapped by rubble, until Harry bursts out of the rubble and calling for everyone to cast "it". Hundreds of voices incant the Patronus charm, and hundreds of Patroni speed at Voldemort, none more powerful than Harry's golden one. Voldemort is burned before their very eyes. The Death Eaters surrender and peace is restored.
A/N: Well there's a fairly rough rundown of what would have happened. Again, I'd love you to follow me to Unknowable Objects, and if you can, leave reviews of it. I like to know I'm being read. Since my friend is betaing it for me, it will have a much more consistent release schedule than this did.