Of Muggles and Wizards
Before Voldemort was able to fire his killing spell, an old man yelled, "Expelliarmus!" The Dark Lord's wand slid away from the grasp of his elongated fingers, the wand flew into an old wizard's slightly wrinkled hands.
Voldemort said with joy in his tone, "Well, well, well, if it isn't the great Albus Dumbledore."
Dumbledore coughed, and said, "Yes, I suppose I'm just in time."
Voldemort looked at Dumbledore's blackened arms and smirked, there was a moment of silence. Voldemort laughed and said, "I could kill you today, but I do not wish to do so because I have to try out my new device. Now I wish to have my wand back, you have my word that I will not kill you."
Under the invisibility clock, L shivered as he listened to the conversation between the two people. He did not see any reason for Dumbledore to give the wand back to Lord Voldemort since he would have an advantage with the Dark Lord disarmed.
It seemed that Dumbledore shared L's point, which could be seen because he didn't move his hands. The Dark Lord threatened, "Give me my wand back and no one shall get hurt. I will keep to my promise and not kill any of you."
Dumbledore said, "I have your wand, what could you do about that?" He raised his own wand and pointed it directly at Voldemort, saying, "Your wrong doings shall end here, Tom."
Voldemort looked at the man who the wizarding community claimed to be his only fear and said confidently, "The wand answers to my call."
Dumbledore said in disbelief, "The wand is not attached to you that strongly."
Voldemort giggled like a little child for a while, and glared at Dumbledore, "A wand is not attached to a normal person strongly, yet I am not normal person. I thought you are wise yet it seems that you are but an ignorant fool afterall."
There was a long silence.
Voldemort yelled, "COME TO ME!" The yell was not especially loud, yet both Dumbledore and L started to shiver after hearing it.
The wand shaked in Dumbledore's wrinkled hands; they slipped off, and flew back to the hands of the Dark Lord.
Voldemort smiled. He knew he had won against the man the wizarding world claimed to be the bane of Lord Voldemort. He said, "In theory I should be killing both of you right now, but I thought about it and I decided not to. Afterall you two are still useful to me. Both of you." He laughed loudly, and disappeared.
Dumbledore scanned the room, he saw where L was since a toe revealed from the bottom of the invisibility cloak, after locating the cloak he reached for it and pulled it off. L was sitting in his usual position (more like kneeling) shivering after hearing Voldemort's words minutes ago.
L stared at Dumbledore and asked, "Who are you? Why did you come and save me?"
Dumbledore replied, "I am Albus Dumbledore, Headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardary. I came to save you because you wanted it."
L gasped in surprise, "So it really did work." He started thinking back several nights ago when an owl came with a parchment attached to its leg which said:
Dear L the World's Greatest Detective (If you are L),
I have promised the muggle Prime Minister of England that I would protect you. A muggle is a person without any magical powers, and wizards on the other hand are people who could use magic. So back to the topic, the owls used to find you are the best at tracking among all of the ones in the Ministry of Magic. If you need the help of wizards, write a note saying that you need help, with your address and attach it to the owl's leg. After reading this letter, rip it and it would turn into a wand and also an invisibility cloak. Just in case you get into trouble with a wizard try the following spell "Expelliarmus"
Yours Truly,
Rufus Scrigmeour
After reading the parchment that day, he didn't really believe in this muggle and wizard kind of thing, although he had no choice but to believe it for now. So he wrote the address on a paper and attached it to the owl's leg, and he ripped up the parchment. The amazing thing was that there was really a 'wand' and a cloak that popped out of nowhere. He had to believe that this was true.
Meanwhile, Dumbledore said, "Yes, I got here just in time my friend."
L said with a British accent since he lived in England for several years, "You were almost late."
Dumbledore said humourously, "Just as Gandalf in JRR Tolkien's the Lord of the Rings would say, 'A wizard is never late. Nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to.'"
L has not read the Lord of the Rings before since he was usually spending his time reading detective books such as Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christie, or reading detective comic books such as Conan. He did not have time to watch the movie since he is not really interested in fantasy movies. Although he has not seen the movie or read the book he said, "It's better to be early." There was a moment of silence, since both of them didn't know what to say even though they had lots of things they wanted to say.
L broke the ice by saying with anger, "I will find the way Kira kills, and I will kill Lord Voldemort after killing Kira."
Dumbledore looked at L for a while with a little bit of disappointment, Dumbledore didn't say anything. L guessed that this was because Dumbledore thought what he said just now had too much hate in it. He apologized, "I was a little bit too angry just now."
Dumbledore stopped looking at L strangely and said, "Just don't let anger overcome you. Or else you would become no different from Lord Voldemort… no you won't become Lord Voldemort's case is unique" L asked, "How unique is he?"
Dumbledore sighed, and said, "His story is a sad one. I will try to make it brief now since I could explain this in a little bit more detail when we get back to the castle. First off his real name is not Voldemort; his original name is Tom Marvolo Riddle. His family on the mother side were wizards that were obsessed with the idea of blood purity, and to remain pure blooded they married their cousins. When it got to his mother, his mother Merope fell in love with a handsome young man called Tom Riddle. One occasion Voldemort's grandfather Marvolo Gaunt and uncle Morfin Gaunt were sent to Azkaban, which is a prison for wizards who have committed crime. Are you following me?"
L nodded his head, and said, "Let me guess. Merope leaves and marries Tom Riddle? Uses some wizardry to make Tom Riddle like her and Tom Riddle leaves her when she's pregnant. Voldemort finds out that about his father he hates all 'muggles'. Am I right?"
Dumbledore said, "No wonder you are called the world's greatest detective. You could piece together the whole story with few clues."
L sighed, and said sorrowfully, "It is an easy story to piece together." He started to think about his own story.
Dumbledore looked at L and asked caringly, "What is the matter? Tell me about it…if it is alright." L sighed again, he knew his expression had let it out, so he decided to tell Dumbledore everything, "You might find out sometime later, so I might as well tell you right now. I will tell you my own story. My father was a good businessman, and my mother was an alcoholic. About a month after I was born, my father decided he was going to divorce with my mother. At the house my father gave her a paper to sign on and a pen to sign with, she grabbed the pen and thrusted it into my father's chest. After stabbing my father, she ran out of the house and continued running for many years."
Dumbledore asked, "Oh what a horrible family. Did your mother get arrested?" L answered, "By none other." Dumbledore was shocked by this, he asked, "So that is why you set off to become a detective? Just to arrest your mother?" L nodded his head.