Disclaimer: I'm too young to be Rowling so there is sadly no way Harry Potter is mine…
Placing:29years after the war.
Challenge: 'Prompt of the day'. Prompt: (word) super. 1401 words. Gryffindor, Hogwarts.
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DEATH ROOM
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When Neville stopped in surprise just after they stepped inside the room, Harry guessed that the scene waiting for them hadn't been on Neville's mind when he agreed to take the job.
Harry wasn't even sure if Malfoy had expected the scene they had walked into – not that Malfoy already could know about it, seeing that he wasn't there already.
Harry on the other hand was suddenly a lot more cheerful.
"Luna!" He greeted the woman in the room enthusiastically. "How are you? What are you doing here?"
"I'm modifying the runes on the veil," she told them as if it wasn't out of the normal to see Harry inside the Ministry of Magic or that she was working on the thing that the DoM called the 'Veil of Death'.
"I can see that," Harry said, looking over her work. "I just didn't know that you were part of Malfoy's little project!"
"Well, I didn't know that as well," Neville said dryly.
Luna just smiled.
"Don't worry, Harry," she said. "Malfoy didn't keep anything from you. He didn't know that I would be part of his project until a few minutes ago."
Harry nodded as if it was totally reasonable that Malfoy hadn't known that little fact.
"Of course he didn't," he said. "Even if I'm actually surprised that he didn't ask you before that –"
Luna waved it off.
"You know how he is, Harry," she said. "Head in the clouds and everything. I'm just surprised that he was reasonable enough to involve you!"
"Actually," Neville started to say, but Luna interrupted him before he could even think about speaking further.
"Ah, of course!" She said. "Neville brought you in! I should have known that at least he was clever enough to involve you!"
"I'm not entirely too sure that involving you and Potter was in any way or form clever," Malfoy said in that moment while stepping inside the room and closing and locking the door behind himself. "I'm still reluctant to even think about the things that will go wrong just because Potter wants to pull a lone saviour act again!"
Harry just raised an eyebrow at the former Slytherin.
"I'm actually not too interested in saving anyone," he told the other man.
Malfoy raised his eyebrows at that.
"Then why did you agree to come at all, Potter?" he asked frowning.
Harry shrugged but decided that the truth couldn't hurt too much.
"I just thought that going into the past might help to prevent some mistakes I made," he said, sounding unconcerned. "It might lead to some people staying alive in the end, but all in all, I'm not too concerned about saving anyone…"
Malfoy's frown deepened.
"I thought you wanted to go back to meet the Weaslette again and all that," he pointed out.
Harry just looked at the other man as if he was insane.
"Ginny might have fallen for me the first time around," he pointed out. "But there's no way I get involved with her the second time around. I'm not a hero anymore. I'm a murderer, an assassin. I don't think that she could ever cope with someone like me as a husband."
Malfoy actually looked as if he had to think that over. In the end, he nodded slowly.
"I guess you might be onto something there, Potter," he agreed grudgingly.
Harry just looked at him indulgently.
"So, you're planning to go back and marry your wife, Malfoy?" He asked.
Malfoy sighed at that but in the end shook his head slowly.
"I don't plan on it," he said truthfully. "I want to stop those bastards – I want to stop everything I can. You know, making a better world and all that crap. But I don't want to go back and marry Astoria again. She wouldn't be my Astoria, you know?"
Neville nodded at that, understanding in his eyes. Luna's pained face told everybody that she knew what Malfoy meant as well.
Harry just sighed.
"I get it," he said. "Going back means that they will grow up differently and that means that they won't be the people we knew…"
"Well," Malfoy hesitated. "We could just go back to the day we lost them and –"
"No," Luna said forcefully. "If we do this, we stop everything – and not just the last bloody incident! It started way before that day and I will be damned if I sit by and only change that last day!"
Malfoy sighed.
"But if we go back that far, we will lose –"
The others nodded.
"We will lose everything," Neville said. "But that's the strategically right thing to do. If we stop this, we have to stop the bloody pureblood mania from festering as far back as we can!"
"It was already set in stone when we were born, Longbottom," Malfoy pointed out.
"It was," Luna said. "But if we do it right, the pureblood fractions won't have enough sway even before we start attending Hogwarts –"
"I'm not against the pureblood fractions," Malfoy tried to object.
Harry just raised an eyebrow.
"Then you're happy with what your former friends did in the name of Voldemort's cause?"
Malfoy's mouth shut audible at that.
"No," he growled. "Not one of these children deserved to be blown up because of the Dark Lord's ridiculous beliefs!"
"Exactly," Harry said. "And like that you're against the pureblood fractions, exactly like us!"
"I'm not –"
"You and I know that there are still people in the Ministry who think what happened back then was right," Harry said coolly. "Well, or at least there were until about half a year ago –"
"When you killed the last one," Luna said, not sounding surprised at all. "We're quite aware of that. Malfoy has reduced those people as well, with stealing all their money and all that, after all…"
Malfoy blushed.
"I didn't –"
"Don't deny it, Draco Malfoy," Luna said. "You were the one who made sure all those people Harry didn't kill had to stop spending their money on those who liked the ideas of the dead Dark Lord."
Malfoy obviously couldn't object to that, he just pressed his lips together before deciding to change the subject.
"Alright," he said before pulling out a time-turner. "I stole that one and modified it. We just have to modify the veil and –"
"I already did that," Luna said mildly. "It will send us to the right time."
"Good," Malfoy said. "If my calculations are correct, we'll end up somewhen between our second and third year at Hogwarts…"
"Why at that time?" Neville asked frowning.
"It's before we've fully grown into our magic," Harry said. "It should be easier since our magic won't fight against our new memories like it would if we were older…"
"Didn't you just talk about just sending us back to the incident?" Neville asked confused. "If our magic would fight –"
"It wouldn't," Malfoy said while rolling his eyes. "We're adults now and back then as well. Our magic wouldn't be able to sense the difference between us now and back then. That's not the case if we go back into a time when we're still growing in magic. Our magic will sense it then, so we cannot go at a time when we have the most magical grow, meaning fourteen onwards. So between second and third year is my aim."
"Why not earlier?" Luna asked interested.
Malfoy just raised an eyebrow.
"Do you want to have to relive your life from before Hogwarts?" He sneered.
Luna smiled at him dreamily.
"Actually I do," she said smiling.
"Super!" Malfoy said sarcastically. "Any other wishes we should discuss before going?"
Harry thought about it for a second, then he answered the question bluntly.
"I wish to kill your father, Malfoy," he said. "You alright with that?"
Malfoy's eyes widened and he spluttered, before obviously starting to think about the request.
"Alright," he finally declared. "If you truly want to…"
"Great!" Luna said enthusiastically, before grabbing the chain of the time-turner and wrapping it around all four of them. "Then let's go!"
And with that she got the time-turner spinning before pushing them all through the veil.
"Wait!" Malfoy cried. "What time did you actually set for the veil, Scamander?"
Regretfully, the question came a tat too late.
They fell through the veil and were plunged into the darkness beyond.
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