Harry didn't have to wait long for his betrayal. Harry dozed off with his head on the desk. He awoke with a start. He noticed the guards outside his door were gone. Suddenly, an intense white light came through the office window. Harry was blinded. Harry rose from the desk to scramble away, but he was hit with a stunning curse and fell helplessly to the floor. A black hood was pulled over his head. Harry heard shuffling and glass breaking in the room. Then felt his body lifted from the floor. Someone directed him through the narrow window. It was a tight fit. He felt the cold air and started to fall to the ground. The next thing he knew he made contact with the carpet in the Blood Loyalist's Hall.
The hood was ripped from Harry's head and suddenly he could move again. Harry's limbs didn't respond normally. He moved unsteadily to his knees. Harry looked around at the opulent room. He saw the Death Eaters surrounded him. They silently stared down at him, dressed in their long black robes. An empty chair in front of him waited for Voldemort. He could not see Snape.
Harry heard the doors of the Chamber open behind him. Harry didn't need to turn around to see who entered. By the look on the Death Eater's faces he knew it was Voldemort. Harry felt a cold hand slip onto his shoulder. There was no escape.
Voldemort begins, "I welcome once again my counsel. Tonight we are gathered to witness history. But I suspect that many of you here tonight, may have thought that you would witness the torture and death of this young man."
Voldemort released Harry's shoulder roughly and walked slowly to his chair.
"I'm afraid you will be disappointed. A true leader would not stoop to such barbarism. Though I must say it is tempting for all the trouble he has caused me. Crusio!"
Voldemort causally applied his curse with his back still to Harry. Harry again felt the bone shattering pain of the Crusiatisc Curse. But as quickly as it began it stopped. Harry heard the Death Eaters laugh as he struggled to his knees. Harry was frustrated by his weakness and didn't trust himself to stand. He remained on the floor below them.
"No my friends, today is the first day of the new wizard order. It is the dawn of a new society. A society with rules, laws, crimes and punishments.
Harry, finally saw Snape at Voldemort's side.
"Harry Potter is before us as the first to be tried under our new order. Our rules have been carefully drawn by you my counsel and we are bound to follow them. The world without order will fall."
"Hear, Hear" The counsel chanted on agreement.
"Let the trail of Harry Potter begin. Harry Potter you are accused of acts of treason against the Blood Loyalist. How do you plead?"
"Guilty" Harry answered and a murmur from the counsel rose.
'Harry Potter you are accused of subversion and the recruitment of others against the Blood Loyalists. How do you plead?"
"Guilty" Again Harry answered in a strong voice.
"Harry Potter you are accused of the attempted assignation of the Leader of the Blood Loyalists, myself, Lord Voldemort. How do you plead?"
"Innocent!" Harry said and rose to his feet.
The group clambered around him. Harry stood his ground and looked Voldemort directly in the eye.
"Innocent?" Voldemort repeated, "Do you wish to respond to this charge in your own defense."
"I do, sir. Harry said as he noticed Lada and Chloe enter the hall through a side door.
Voldemort said, "You may proceed."
"My attempted assassination of you was done in self-defense. Under the rule of law self-defense is not a crime. I only tried to kill you because you tried to kill me. Our minds have been poisoned against each other." Harry paused.
Once again the hall was filled with whispers.
"Since the death of Albus Dumbledore I've been able to think more clearly. I can see the truth. Our lives are a parallel. Dumbledore never trusted me just as he never trusted you. Dumbledore watched me just as he watched you. He recognized our greatness. He reminded me many times of how similar I am to you. But he led me to believe I was different than you because I understood love. I had loyal friends and loving parents. I was good and worth protecting and you were bad and needed to be destroyed. But during my very first year at Hogwarts I had to face you alone. Wasn't I worth protecting than and all the other times we faced each other? It was part of Dumbledore's plan to keep us pitted against each other. It didn't matter to Dumbledore who died, as long as one of us did."
Harry stopped and watched Chloe and Lada move closer to Voldemort. The silence was thick in the hall as the group took in what Harry said.
"The prophecy was created by Dumbledore. He put it in Trelawny's head. We all know she could never conjure such a thing on her own. It was just another clever devise to keep us at war. Dumbledore saw we are two halves of the same whole. Dumbledore saw that together our powers would be unstoppable. Dumbledore feared the day we would join together because he knew that after that day he could do nothing against us. His fears have been realized. I offer my skills to you."
Harry dropped to his knees before Voldemort. The Hall erupts in loud chatter. Voldemort looked down on Harry feeling the lust of absolute power.
Voldemort raised his arms to silence his counsel.
He speaks, " Harry Potter has humbled himself before this counsel. Harry Potter has denounced his mentor Albus Dumbledore. Harry Potter has offered himself to me as a Death Eater. My counsel, I must confess to you this does not come to me as a complete surprise. Sources told me the Harry Potter would betray Dumbledore in the end. Harry Potter fully understands that to be marked a Death Eater is reversible and that betrayal to the Blood Loyalist is punished by death. What say you to Harry Potter Death Eater?"
The counsel responds with the chant, "Aye, Aye Aye"
"The counsel deems that you should become a Death Eater. You understand in doing so you are bound to my service for life."
"I understand, My Lord." Harry said and offered him his arm.
Voldemort stepped forward to place the brand of the dark mark on Harry's arm. Voldemort raised his wand and a green grey smoked filed the air above them. Voldemort slowly placed his wand on Harry's arm. Harry's flesh was seared. Voldemort pulled back his wand and saw the Dark Mark did not appear. Near the front for the hall Snape held back Chloe from approaching. Voldemort tried again. This time Harry could not hold back his cry of pain.
Chloe steps forward with Harry's wand and yells, "Ververda."
A golden white light blasts from Harry's wand and covered Voldemort. Voldemort dropped Harry's arm. Again it was unmarked. Voldemort's eyes were wide with disbelief.
Voldemort gasped, "You're a muggle. You have no powers. You filth."
Voldemort staggered back from Harry and saw Snape holding his wand out against him.
Voldemort uttered, "Severus you've been against me all the time!"
Voldemort looked at Chloe, "Muggle! With a simple truth curse. You fools.
Lada. My love, My Heart a Muggle too."
Snape addressed the counsel, "Voldemort, has asked a muggle to become a Death Eater. He has fallen in love with a Muggle. This is high treason by his own laws he must die."
Voldemort looked at his counsel and saw fear, hate and betrayal on their faces. He saw a helpless muggle boy gasp his arm in pain. He felt his heart turn to cold porcelain glass in his body. The world he had built was a lie. Voldemort dropped to his knees. With one last quiet breath the most feared wizard of all time was dead.
Snape addressed the counsel again. "Members of the counsel I want you to put down your wands. Voldemort is gone. The world he created is gone. There is nothing to fight for. There never was. Everything he tried to make you believe in was a lie. We made him see it in the end and he died. It is your time to expect it. Please exit the hall. The Ministry officials will be waiting for you outside."
The stunned counsel did as they were told.
Chloe rushed to Harry and said. "Harry, Harry are you alright? I tried to do it as soon as he touched you like you said, but he held me back."
Chloe motioned to Snape.
Snape helped Harry up and said, "Sorry, Potter but I wanted to be sure."
"I'm ok" Harry said.
"Oh, Harry is he dead. You said it was just a truth charm. You said it couldn't hurt anybody." Chloe said repulsed by the sight of a body.
"It was only a Truth Charm that makes people see the truth in everyone, but for him it was something he couldn't face and live."
Lada stepped forward, "Hello, Harry, It's nice to meet you. I'm Lada. Severus' pharmacist niece"
Lada was the most beautiful woman he had ever seen. It was little wonder Voldemort never thought to question Snape as to which side of his family she came from.
"It's nice to meet you. Thank for everything."
Lada said, "You're very welcome Harry Potter."
Epilog
Harry backed his way up the Hogwarts stairs pulling a large trunk with him step by step.
"Why'd you have to bring so much stuff?" He complained to Chloe.
"Don't look at me you told me everything I needed to bring." Chloe said right back.
Hermione and Ron raced down the castle steps to greet them.
"Oh' Harry let me help you with that." Hermione said and she levitated the trunk to the top of the stairs.
"Cool" Chloe said, "Will I learn how to do that?"
"Eventually" Hermione answer. "Welcome to Hogwarts, Chloe. How does it feel to be our newest student"
Chloe said, "Great, kinda weird though. I mean if Harry hadn't transferred his powers to me I'd still but stuck at home dealing with seizures all the time. Just having him help me with that was enough but now a new school. It like having a whole new life."
Ron said, "Harry it was a great thing you did. You're sure there's no going back."
Harry said, "I'm sure. Mind you it won't very natural for her at first because she starting this so late on but she'll do ok. She'll never be a Harry Potter chosen one but she doesn't need to be."
"Potter!" Snape said coming down on the group. "Have you forgotten you've been banned from Hogwarts for life?"
"No I haven't. I was just helping Chloe with her things." Harry said.
Snape said "I see. And what plans have you for the future?"
"Well, I've been accepted into college. I'm studying alternative medicine. You see, I helped Chloe so much with her seizure with natural ingredients that maybe I could learn to help someone else."
"Alternative Medicine Potter? Could that be Potions?" Snape asked.
"Muggle potions I suppose." Harry Answered
"Interesting" Snape said and left the group.
After Snape left. Ron asked, "Harry I've got to know how did you figure Snape was one your side?"
Harry said, " I didn't it was really Dumbledore. Dumbledore trusted Snape to the end and I decided I had to too. It was my only chance. You see Snape didn't really kill Dumbledore. Dumbledore was dying from the wound on his hand. It was fatal. They just timed it so it would look like Snape killed him so Snape could move closer to Voldemort."
Hermione asked, "How does it feel to be a muggle?"
"Not bad. No one is after me now because I'm Harry, just Harry."