Fought in a war
Chapter 8
Beta by Alikatgirl, Many thanks love.
Depourous M Loveless
Dream Catchers and Memory Makers Extraordinaire
Your Forgotten Memories Brought Back to Life
Albus Dumbledore looked up at the sign that was above the shop at 349 Phoenix Passage, just off Diagon Alley.
And pushing down the catch and hearing the DING of the bell, entered.
Dumbledore always had a back up plan just in case of an emergency, but this was normally when he had foreseen all possible outcomes. By predicting the future he could always be ready for any eventuality.
But it seemed the FUCKING BASTARD WHO SHOULD HAVE BEEN ABORTED. Calm……….. Calm………….
Ok, he thought, I'm back from that dark place, only Potter was the one to muck up his plans, and as happened, to anybody who ever did get in Dumbledore's way. They ended up dead. Removing himself from the problem he focussed on the solution, and entered into Depourous Loveless's shop.
All over the shop there were glass balls of all shapes and sizes, a rather serious looking wizard came to the counter to greet Dumbledore, after doing as all shoppers do when entering a store and looking at merchandise we all have no intentions of buying, Dumbledore waited for the shop to clear and walking to the door put a locking charm on it without the knowledge of the proprietor.
"I have a particular need,"
"And prey tell what may that be?" the wizard enquired,
"you didn't strike me as the sort of customer to want memories from a birthday party, or the first kiss you ever enjoyed, or your first flying lesson plucked from your memory to take away and enjoy, so how may I help you today Professor?"
"I am enquiring as to whether you can alter a memory and then place the altered memories into a pensive that I may take away with me?" Wizard Loveless fidgeted uneasily on the spot and looking at the front door realised it was locked took a step to his left and groped for his wand that was on the counter
CRASH Dumbledore brought his own wand out and rammed in straight through Loveless's hand and into the counter causing the wizard to scream in pain,
"Silencio" Dumbledore barked and the wizard silenced immediately
"Now let's try again, as you can probably tell, I'm not having the best of days. You are going to create a memory from the facts I tell you, and when you have done that, I will heal your hand and leave this place, do you understand"
Pulling his wand out of Loveless's hand and then driving it back through again, the excruciating pain evident in the wizards face, but his screams could not escape, continued
"If you do not do as I say you will die a most painful death, do I make my self clear?" and taking the frantic nodding from Depourous he removed his wand again and holding it menacingly at the wizard, explained exactly what memory he wanted creating, going into exact details of the smell, the surrounding sounds, and the atmosphere. After he had finished Wizard Loveless gave the Pensive to Dumbledore, who was delighted at the authenticity of the memory stored within. He made a mental note that he would have to create a pensive of this shop visit as he could smell the fear on the wizard and he liked it, but not before he had some fun with the wizard himself, it had been a long time since he had exacted any physical pressure on another, longer since he had had sex, looking at the wizard who was now kneeling on the floor begging for his life Dumbledore thought to himself 'You'll do,'
The next day Draco and Harry awoke hungry but rested, Harry called for Dobby, but Dobby didn't appear, in his place Winkey popped in, head bowed lower than normal, crying and wailing in one, it was ever so sad Harry thought
"Winkey what is wrong, why is you so upset?" Draco laughed at the way Harry had taken to talking to the house elf's in house elf English; it never failed to amuse him,
"Great Amesis, Winkey is not worthy to be in your presence"
Harry not quite understanding what she actually was saying, thought better than to ask for an explanation,
"Master Draco and I require full breakfast and the morning newspapers can you please fetch?"
Before he had finished his request the bottom of the bed had three trays on, one for both and one with a pitcher of hot coffee on and the morning newspapers,
"Thank you Winkey, you are most kind"
"Great and holy Amesis, Winkey is happy to be blessed by you," and with a wailing sound that made the crying sound from before sound like a trained operatic singer, popped out of the room
"What the fuck was she just on about Dray?" Harry asked quizzingly at the same time teasing Draco with a slice of fried bread, receiving an 'I don't know' shrug from his lover.
They both ate there fill, the plates magically refilling as they ate which prompted Draco to scream at them to stop, then relaxed in the bed to read the morning edition of the Daily Prophet. The front page headline caught their eye together the headline was.
'Wizard flayed in magic shop'
"Shitting hell, read it out to me Draco please."
"The body of Depourous M Loveless noted pensive and memory artiste was found last night in his shop at 349 Phoenix passage by a severely shocked passer by. He had been brutally tortured and raped, the extent of his injuries are too horrific for a family newspaper like this to place on the front page, but rest assured they are the worst that this observer has ever seen. There didn't appear to be a motive for the attack and nothing was stolen. Ernest Shacklebolt from the Aurors department of the Ministry of Magic quoted 'we are treating the death of wizard Loveless as suspicious, and murder hasn't been ruled out at this time'
Wizard Loveless leaves behind a Parrot and a wife called Fanny.
It says here that the injuries are on page two, want to hear what they were?"
"As much as I think it will ruin my blissfully settled stomach, go on."
"Ok, but stop me if it grosses you out ok?
Wizard Loveless had his jaw snapped in half and was hanging just by the skin on his face, his left eye had been punctured with a slim blunt object, his right eye left to dangle on his cheek, he was stripped naked and raped with severe brutality and a large object was deposited in his rectum before he was flayed alive, there his body was left to bleed to death."
Draco and Harry both made a beeline for the toilet together and although the breakfast they had just eaten was lovely, it now firmly resided in the toilet pan.
"Fucking hell Harry, I thought you killed the sickest bastard ever to have lived?"
"Me too, Draco. Me too."
Meanwhile in the psychiatric ward at St Mungo's a package was delivered to the duty nurse, who not seeing as it could do any harm, a happy memory and all, decided that patient number n8814415 would be ok to receive the gift from the kindly old well wisher who brought it in.
"Its from a Quidditch match he played in dearie,"" the old crone said as she left the glass orb at the front desk, taking great care to get a firm promise from the duty nurse that she would give it to the patient
"It will cheer him up no end dearie," she added before leaving and entering the lift to go out of the hospital, as the lift door opened at the ground floor Albus Dumbledore stepped out of it with a maniacal glint in his eye. His plan was afoot.
Up in the ward the psychiatric nurse checked on the state of patient n8814415, codes like this were used so that the press didn't actually know who was in the ward, strange the nurse thought that the old crone didn't actually ask for the orb to go to the patient by name, but leaving it for him, decided to clean around his room a little while he was going to be occupied in his 'happy place'
She never knew what hit her when Ron Weasley calmly walked over and punched her straight in the face knocking her out, taking the keys that were on her belt and fixing his clothes he opened the door to his room, calmly walking to the lift rage building in him as he went, all of his fibre trying to restrain the urge to kill the first thing that propositioned him, all the way to the lift and no one, he was glad, the rage he had was for one person, the person who killed his girlfriend and his mother, how he had been so blind to the truth all this time he just couldn't see, but now it was time, he was going to kill the person who had caused all this pain. As he walked out of the building a janitor testified later to hearing him say
"Harry, I'm coming for you."