Chapter 13: The Truth Revealed

Harry tipped the bottle upside down, letting the remaining drops fall into the Death Eater's mouth. Harry woke him up and sat across from him.

'What is my name?' Harry asked.

'Harry... Potter.' The Death Eater replied.

'What is your name and why are you a Death Eater?' Harry asked, hoping the truth could be avoided.

'...Weasley... Ron Weasley.' The Death Eater said slowly, 'As you can see, I wear the robes of the Death Eater and stand beside You-Know-Who, but I didn't harm anyone on the battlefield. I saved them.'

'What do you mean when you say that you saved them. Saved who?'

'The Weasley family... I secretly became a Death Eater, worked my way up to being real close to him and I asked him a favor. Nobody shall harm the Weasleys. He agreed and I continued to supposedly spy.' Ron said, holding his head, 'Don't worry, he never got any information out of me. He said he didn't need it now that you were dead. He never found out the location, or identity of the Minister of Magic either.'

'Show me your arms.' Harry ordered.

Ron rolled the sleaves up to his shoulders and showed Harry. There was no Dark Mark.

'As you can see, there is no mark Harry. It wasn't neccessary he said. Although I may of killed that Zabini from Slytherin on his orders, I didn't damage anyone else really.'

'Noble work Mr.Weasley, although you could of avoided the killing part. And the Death Eater part.' Dumbledore's portrait said, who seemed to be listening in on the whole conversation.'

'Professor, is there any way to remove a Horcrux without killing? It wasn't to clear on it in the book I was reading.'

'Why do you ask Harry?' asked Dumbledore.

'I - I am a Horcrux. He accidently made me a horcrux. When he killed my mother he planned to make a horcrux and then he saw me and went to kill me instead. It seems the soul went through the Avada Kedavra, transfering into me, and the actual spell rebounding on him.'

'The fastest, but least noble way is suicide. But there are others. I am sure you know it Harry. I know you know it. You practiced stopping it for most of one of your years.' Dumbledore replied, smiling, 'Also, I would find it wise to forgive Mr. Weasley for trying to save his family.'

'Thank you Professor. Ron, get those Death Eater robes off and lets go help bring the rest to Azkaban. I am going to think about what to do to become just me though.' Harry said as he opened the door and exiting the room with Ron.

As they walked down the hall Ron began laughing, 'Oh man, I usually am not the person who figures this stuff out, but remember how you spent your third year learning the Patronus? Maybe it has something to do with a dementor. Either that or it has something to do with Occlumency.'

The two made it out to the grounds and saw the people gone from battle, being brought back to Azkaban. Harry looked down, seeing the fallen bodies of many Death Eaters, and then saw Sirius and a bunch of Aurors come back, taking more Death Eaters out of the grounds and vanishing. Harry turned his head to the school and saw Ginny Weasley running towards him.

'Harry! Is it over?' She shouted and then Harry fell to the ground clutching his scar. Ron ran towards his sister and Harry began to stand up, Hermione returning to the area.

'Avada Kedavra!' shouted Harry, the green light zooming towards Ginny. Ron tackled Ginny and the two hit the ground, unharmed. Harry began to laugh and then began speaking some strange language, not understandable by anybody. It wasn't English, French, German, nor any other language recorded, and not even Parceltongue. Ron looked at Harry, angered at his attempt to kill Ginny and began approaching Harry, wand raised.

'Ron! Don't do it! He is possessed!' shouted Hermione, a red beam shooting out of her wand, hitting Ron and his wand flying back.

Some black swirls appeared in the ground and dementors appeared. They began approaching the group and one went after Harry. He fell to the ground and it lunged over him, and performed the dementor's kiss.

'No! Not Harry!' shouted Ginny, 'Expecto Patronum!' The patronus wiped out all but the one that got Harry. The dementor floated towards Voldemort and looked down on him, something floating from the dementor, and into Voldemort. The dementor was then hit with a patronus and Harry got to his feet slowly.

'Thank you Harry, for letting me take control of your useless body, although it proved useful again. I remember it. Four years ago when I was brought back thanks to your blood, but now I am back again, due to the little bit of my soul in you going to its rightful place.' Voldemort said, laughing, 'To bad I didn't get to know the stuff going on in your mind, but I did see through your eyes. I heard everything in that office Harry. Now it is time for you to pay the price! Avada Kedavra!'

The green light sped towards Harry and Harry threw his wand in the air, shouting the very same words. The two green lights collided and Harry shouted back at his friends to escape. The ground began crumbling and a crater was left behind, and lots of smoke. Harry dropped to the ground to avoid any wild spells and waited for the smoke to clear. Harry saw a figure standing and he aimed a spell at him but didn't need to do anything because the man fell to his knees and then to the ground. The smoke finally cleared and he noticed something else. It seemed that anybody to close to the two men were killed in the blast, and Harry was lucky to survive. But he felt fine... Didn't he? Feeling dizzy, Harry collapsed to the ground and was out cold.

Harry opened his eyes, seeing a bright room and he turned his head. He saw Sirius sitting there, alongside with Mrs. Weasley, Tonks, Lupin and Moody.

'Is - Is it over?' Harry asked, as he sat up.

'Harry! You are awake! Thank goodness. What kind of Christmas break would it be without you!' Mrs. Weasley said quickly. 'It is December 17th. Break starts in a few days.'

'You've been out for a month. People were worried about you and I just told them that you were a fighter,' Moody said, smiling.

'You on break Moony?' Harry asked, now looking at Lupin.

'Nah, I just came here during the break. I am glad you are waking up though.' Lupin laughed and smiled like Harry hadn't seen before.

'Woken up Moony... Woken up.' Sirius said.

'So, can I get out of here soon or what?' asked Harry.

'Yes, but first they will want to make sure you are healthy enough. I can tell though, all you need is one of Molly's dinners.' Tonks said.

Lupin left as well as Tonks and Moody, and Harry was cleared to go. Sirius handed Harry his wand and the three left the house. Harry went to The Burrow where he had a good lunch and then travelled to the Ministry of Magic. He entered the ministry and walked to the elevator, punching in the code 835374663. It made the elevator move and he landed on the top floor and he entered a familiar room except it was decorated more of Mr. Weasley's style. Mr. Weasley was writing paperwork and a muggle radio was playing, and Queen was heard on the radio.

'Ah Harry, you have woken up I see? It is a fact this time and we know, Lord Voldemort is defeated.' Mr. Weasley shuddered when he said the name, 'Narcissa Malfoy also died, along with Greyback at the time that you two used the killing curse. I don't know why you made it out okay but that doesn't matter, does it?'

'Of course it doesn't. How was the muggle people taking to this news and how many Aurors or Order members died?'

'Oh.. We lost Shacklebolt. He seemed to get attacked by Nott when everyone was being brought back to Azkaban. Don't worry though, Nott was captured. Many Aurors fell though, but you wouldn't know them. And as for the muggles? I think they reacted the same way they did when Voldemort supposedly died the first time. It seems that according to Mrs. Figg, that your uncle and aunt noticed the strange happenings and knew you had something to do with it. She overheard them talking about Dumbledore knowing that it would happen. It seems they knew something that you didn't.' Mr. Weasley said smiling, 'But this is not a time for sitting around. Go out and live a little Harry! Ollivander has returned and so has Florean and reopened their stores. It turns out they were in hiding. And Harry, would you like to do the honors?'

'Honors of what?' Harry asked.

Mr. Weasley reached into his drawer, pulling a box out. He handed it to Harry who took a look at it, recognising it as Voldemort's wand. Harry grabbed it, snapping it in half and then taking the Phoenix feather out. Doing this, the wand began making screeching sounds and white light appeared. There were many figures standing in the room. Harry saw his parents, Cedric, the old Caretaker of the Riddle house, Bertha Jorkins, many people he didn't know, Tom Riddle and his mother and father, many others, and finally he saw Tom Riddle Junior appear, as he looked when Harry saw him in his second year.

'Thank you for freeing me...' Tom said, and then the people all began to vanish. Harry burned the wand later that night and sat down in the field behind the Burrow, laying on the ground looking at the stars.